Afghanistan: Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current LCU)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2024, Afghanistan's agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current LCU) fell 7.8% on 2023 (from 469.35 billion to 432.75 billion).

Across the 21 yearly changes before that (2003 to 2023), the average change was +10.7% and a typical year strayed about 17.1% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 46.6% in 2007 and the biggest yearly fall was 13.8% in 2018. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is upward, about 22.03 billion a year. A straight line explains 78% of the movement over 10 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

In 2024, Afghanistan had the 3rd highest value of the 29 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Afghanistan in the 2024 ranking

• Lebanon — 1st of 29: 24.29 trillion
• Japan — 2nd of 29: 6.08 trillion
• Peru — 4th of 29: 81.83 billion
• Vanuatu — 5th of 29: 41.19 billion
• Tajikistan — 6th of 29: 35.92 billion

What this measures

Agriculture, forestry, and fishing corresponds to ISIC (Rev. 4) divisions 01-03 and includes the exploitation of vegetal and animal natural resources, comprising the activities of growing of crops, raising and breeding of animals, harvesting of timber and other plants, animals or animal products from a farm or their natural habitats.Value added is the contribution to the economy by a producer or an industry or an institutional sector, which is estimated by the total value of output produced and deducting the total value of intermediate consumption of goods and services used to produce that output. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This series is expressed in local currency units.

All 23 values

Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current LCU) in nearby economies

• Algeria — 5.48 trillion (2025)
• Bahrain — 44.29 million (2025)
• Djibouti — 18.67 billion (2025)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 3 trillion (2025)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 28,533.9 trillion (2025)
• Iraq — 11.29 trillion (2025)
• Israel — 25.78 billion (2024)
• Jordan — 2.43 billion (2025)
• Kuwait — 255.59 million (2025)

More economic policy & debt data for Afghanistan

• Grants, excluding technical cooperation (BoP, current US$) — US$3.02 billion (2023)
• Technical cooperation grants (BoP, current US$) — US$132.59 million (2023)
• Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Germany (current US$) — US$275.22 million (2023)
• Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Total (current US$) — US$2.57 billion (2023)
• Net official development assistance and official aid received (current US$) — US$3.06 billion (2023)
• Net official development assistance and official aid received (constant 2023 US$) — US$3.06 billion (2023)
• Net official development assistance received (current US$) — US$3.06 billion (2023)
• Net official development assistance received (constant 2023 US$)

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Questions people ask

What is Afghanistan's agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current LCU)?

432.75 billion in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2002?

It is up 515% from 70.37 billion in 2002 (8.61% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 469.35 billion in 2023 and the lowest 70.37 billion in 2002.

How does Afghanistan rank?

3rd highest of 29 economies with data for 2024.

Is the latest change in agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current LCU) unusual for Afghanistan?

In 2024, Afghanistan's agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current LCU) fell 7.8% on 2023 (from 469.35 billion to 432.75 billion). Across the 21 yearly changes before that (2003 to 2023), the average change was +10.7% and a typical year strayed about 17.1% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NV.AGR.TOTL.CN, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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