AfghanistanandPakistan

1747 · 14 August 1947

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

Afghanistan

1747 — Ahmad Shah Durrani founds the Durrani Empire

Dossier →Chronicle →

Pakistan

14 August 1947 — The Dominion of Pakistan emerges from the partition of British India

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
41
Domains
9
Crossed events
1
Data through
2026-08-22

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Economy

AFGPAK
  • GDP
    $18 B2024$407 B2025
    Observed 2024 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $4172024$1,5962025
    Observed 2024 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    1.9%20243.7%2025
    Observed 2024 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    -6.6%20243.5%2025
    Observed 2024 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    83.8%202427.2%2025
    Observed 2024 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Society

AFGPAK
  • Population
    44 m2025255 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    66.3 yrs202467.8 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    25.9%202539.5%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    4.820243.52024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

AFGPAK

Health

AFGPAK
  • Health spending
    15.0%20232.5%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    0.3220231.162021
    Observed 2023 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    53.0202456.02024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    55.0%202486.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Safe drinking water
    30.6%202445.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

AFGPAK
  • Adult literacy
    37.3%202158.9%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Education spending
    4.3%20171.9%2023
    Observed 2017 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Primary enrolment
    112.2%202383.7%2024
    Observed 2023 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Secondary enrolment
    59.6%202348.3%2024
    Observed 2023 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Tertiary enrolment
    10.9%202010.9%2024
    Observed 2020 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Technology

AFGPAK
  • Internet users
    16.1%202457.3%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    602024772024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    0.0%20192.4%2024
    Observed 2019 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • R&D spending
    —0.2%2023
    Observed — / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    —4742023
    Observed — / 2023 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

AFGPAK
  • Land area
    652,230 km²2023770,880 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    1.9%20234.7%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    58.4%202346.7%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    0.320240.82024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    20.0%202241.6%2021
    Observed 2022 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

AFGPAK
  • Resource rents
    0.4%20211.4%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.0%20210.4%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    0.0%20210.1%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    0.4%20210.1%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    87.8%202495.7%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Military

AFGPAK
  • Military burden
    1.8%20212.7%2024
    Observed 2021 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $278 M2021$10 B2024
    Observed 2021 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    165,0002020943,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 1893

    The Durand Line drawn

    Amir Abdur Rahman Khan agrees the Durand Line with British India, fixing a frontier that divides Pashtun communities and remains a source of dispute with Pakistan to this day.

    Politics & Power · from the Afghanistan chronicle · The Durrani Empire and the Great Game · REFS 2 — Afghanistan: A Country Study, Afghanistan — history