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Strategic Position Scoreⓘ

How well-positioned is this nation for the next 10 years — combining demographics, resources, stability, education, technology, and geopolitics.

25
67
Demographics
40
Resources
28
Stability
8
Education
2
Technology
6
Geopolitics
🇦🇫Afghanistan
Overall Score
31
Save Difficulty
Very Hard

Key driver/drag compare this nation's own metrics against each other, not a trend over time. Metrics marked live are fetched from the World Bank; derived, curated, and beta-estimated values are labeled throughout.

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Global Media Signalⓘ

Global coverage and media tone compared with this country's historical baseline.

Global Attention
Normal
Within normal range
Media Tone
Stable
-3.6 (-1.0 vs 30d avg)
Media Pressure
Low
No significant pressure signals
Global Attention · 30d
Media Tone · 30d

Afghanistan is currently within its normal media coverage range, with no significant tone deterioration detected.

Media Pressure:Low

Based on GDELT-monitored global media coverage. Attention reflects relative article volume; tone reflects average media tone, not objective country conditions.

Market Pulseⓘ

Equity, currency & commodity signals

No market data available for this country yet.

Global regime:Dollar Pressure

Global markets are showing dollar-pressure signals as gold has outpaced oil.

National Momentumⓘ

▲ 30 → 31
Economy▼ 47 → 44
Governance▼ 33 → 32
Quality of Life▲ 47 → 48
Innovation▲ 0 → 2
Stability▲ 24 → 28

Category deltas are illustrative baselines. Real historical data for individual metrics is shown in the charts within each category section below.

Opportunity Indexⓘ

If you had to put your money somewhere — open a business, emigrate, or invest — where would this nation rank?

32
Start a Business
Government effectiveness + economic growth
40
Emigrate To
Quality of life + stability
25
Invest In
Economy + innovation + stability

Assets · Risks · Opportunities · Threatsⓘ

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Leadershipⓘ

Current
Hibatullah Akhundzada
Supreme Leader · 2021–present
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LLM Insightsⓘ

Predictive Analytics
⚡Transition Risk Prediction

Forecasts how smoothly a leadership or policy transition would go, based on institutional stability and current momentum.

Resilience baselineMomentum trendGovernance scoreCrisis history
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🛡Geopolitical Risk Score

Ongoing risk signal blending external threats, alliance exposure, and shock sensitivity.

Active threatsBloc exposureShock scenariosDefense posture
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📉Stability Erosion Detection

Surfaces gradual drift across categories that wouldn't trip a hard alert on its own.

Category driftMomentum deltasQuality-of-life trendFiscal trend
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🏛Institutional Bottleneck Mapping

Identifies where governance gaps or reform friction are slowing this nation's progress.

Reform difficultyGovernance scoreRisk countLegacy constraints
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🤝Strategic Opportunity Detection

Recommends where this nation has the most upside, based on its own opportunity index.

Opportunity indexAsset strengthsUntapped verticalsBloc adjacency
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⚙Policy Gap Detection

Flags policy or structural gaps that could expose this nation to compliance, fiscal, or reputational risk.

Threat countRegime constraintsFiscal exposureTreaty coverage
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Insights are derived from this nation's own resilience, momentum, SWOT, and opportunity data — not a live model call.

Archetypesⓘ

Fragile State

Weak governance combined with low political stability.

Archetypes are derived automatically from this nation's industries, resources, military, and category scores — not hand-assigned.

Resilienceⓘ

37
Pandemic45

Healthcare, fiscal health, government effectiveness

Banking Crisis46

Fiscal health, government effectiveness, economy

War / Conflict19

Military score, stability, alliance membership

Natural Disaster38

Fiscal health, food self-sufficiency, government effectiveness

Shock-response scores derived from this nation's own metrics (healthcare, fiscal health, military, food self-sufficiency, etc.), not from any actual crisis event.

AI Readinessⓘ

15.27
Early StageGlobal rank #188 / 195
Policy Capacity
0
Governance
11
AI Infrastructure
19
Public Sector Adoption
27
Development & Diffusion
12
Resilience
23

AI Strengths

    What this country is ready for

    AI Gaps

    • ▼ Governance
    • ▼ Policy Capacity

    What may hold it back

    Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index 2025 · 6 pillars · 14 dimensions · 69 indicators

    Nation Profileⓘ

    Geography

    Area
    652,230 km²
    Population
    42.6M
    Density
    65.4/km²
    Coastline
    Landlocked

    Political System

    Government Type
    De facto Taliban-led emirate
    Regime (derived)
    Authoritarian
    Elections
    No elections under current authorities

    Main Industries

    AgricultureMining

    Energy

    ⚪Oil
    ⚪Natural Gas
    ⚪Coal
    🟡Nuclear
    🟡Hydropower
    🟡Solar
    🟡Wind

    Strategic Resources

    🟡Lithium
    🟡Rare Earths
    ⚪Copper
    ⚪Iron
    ⚪Gold
    ⚪Silver
    ⚪Fresh Water

    Food Capacity

    Arable Land
    26.3%
    Food Exports
    51
    Self-Sufficiency
    22

    Industries and government type are best-effort curated facts. Energy/resource tiers, food capacity, and military figures are curated estimates. Area and population are sourced from World Bank (periodically refreshed).

    Live Situationⓘ

    Global Influenceⓘ

    Diplomatic Relations
    26
    Governance Score
    20
    Share of Tracked GDP
    0%

    Bloc membership: curated fact. Diplomatic relations: bilateral partner count via Wikidata. Governance Score: World Bank WGI composite (effectiveness, anti-corruption, rule of law), scaled 0–100. "Share of Tracked GDP" is this nation's estimated GDP as a share of the 203 nations in this dataset — not a true world-GDP share.

    Militaryⓘ

    19
    Active Personnel
    165K
    Reserve Personnel
    —
    Tanks
    0
    Aircraft
    5
    Naval Assets
    8
    Aircraft Carriers
    0
    Overseas Bases
    —
    Nuclear Weapons
    No

    Personnel from World Bank / IISS. Equipment (tanks, aircraft, naval) from GlobalFirepower. Nuclear status and carrier counts are verified public record. Overseas bases are estimates.

    Economyⓘ

    44
    ▲ Key driverInflation (Annual) (-6.6%)· as of 2024
    ▼ Key dragGDP per Capita ($414)· as of 2023

    Growth

    Inflation

    Fiscal Health

    Labor Market

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    Governanceⓘ

    32
    ▲ Key driverTime to Open a Business (8 days)· as of 2019-12-31
    ▼ Key dragTransparency (20.0)· as of 2023-12-31

    Government Effectiveness

    Rule of Law

    Dispute Resolution

    Corruption

    Click a metric with historical data to plot it. Up to 3 at once; oldest is replaced when a 4th is added.

    Quality of Lifeⓘ

    48
    ▲ Key driverHomicide Rate (4.0324584656778 per 100k)· as of 2021
    ▼ Key dragLiteracy Rate (37.3%)· as of 2021

    Safety

    Healthcare

    Education

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    Innovationⓘ

    2
    ▲ Key driverInternet Penetration (16.1%)· as of 2024
    ▼ Key dragNew Business Rate (0.220835629829262 per 1k)· as of 2018

    Tech

    Connectivity

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    Stabilityⓘ

    28
    ▲ Key driverPolitical Violence Control (28.2)· as of 2024
    ▼ Key dragPolitical Violence Control (28.2)· as of 2024

    Political Stability

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    Historical Trendsⓘ

    World Bank
    Data coverage: 27 live·2 derived·0 curatedLast refreshed: Jul 4, 2026Methodology: Reconstructable