Editing Demographics of Afghanistan (section)

=== Current and latest ===
As of 2021, the total population of Afghanistan is around 37.5 million,<ref name="Factbook">{{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/afghanistan/ |title=Afghanistan |work=The World Factbook |publisher=CIA |access-date=1 March 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/afghanistan-population/ |title=Afghanistan |work=Worldmeters |publisher=worldmeters.info |access-date=30 May 2019}}</ref> which includes the 3 million Afghan nationals living in both [[Afghans in Pakistan|Pakistan]] and [[Afghans in Iran|Iran]].<ref name="PAN-pop"/> About 26% of the population is [[urban area|urbanite]] and the remaining 74% lives in rural areas.<ref name="Factbook"/>

Afghanistan's [[Central Statistics Organization]] (CSO) stated in 2011 that the total number of Afghans living inside Afghanistan was about 26 million<ref name="PAN-pop">{{cite news |url=https://www.pajhwok.com/en/2011/11/20/afghanistans-population-reaches-26m |title=Afghanistan's population reaches 26m |publisher=Pajhwok Afghan News |editor=Mohammad Jawad Sharifzada |date=20 November 2011 |access-date=5 December 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130101074433/https://www.pajhwok.com/en/2011/11/20/afghanistans-population-reaches-26m |archive-date=1 January 2013}}</ref> and by 2017 it reached 29.2&nbsp;million. Of this, 15 million are males and 14.2&nbsp;million are females.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://pajhwok.com/photo/afghan-population-29-2-million/ |title=Afghan Population 29.2 Million |website=pajhwok.com|date=10 May 2017 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011103545/https://www.pajhwok.com/en/node/483787|archive-date=11 October 2017|last1=Hamdard |first1=Azizullah }}</ref> The country's population is expected to reach 82 million by 2050.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.prb.org/Countries/Afghanistan.aspx |title=Afghanistan – Population Reference Bureau |publisher=[[Population Reference Bureau]] |access-date=29 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202224051/http://www.prb.org/Countries/Afghanistan.aspx |archive-date=2 December 2013 }}</ref>

Urban areas have experienced rapid population growth in the last decade, which is due to the return of over 5 million [[expatriate|expats]]. The only city in Afghanistan with over a million residents is its capital, [[Kabul]].