Editing Demographics of Afghanistan (section)

=== Demographic and Health Surveys ===
Afghanistan 2024 [[total fertility rate]] has been estimated at 4.4.
<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/total-fertility-rate/country-comparison/|title=Total fertility rate Comparison – The World Factbook|website=www.cia.gov}}</ref> In 2022 it was 4.5, about twice the world average rate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?end=2022&start=1960&view=chart|title=World Bank Open Data|website=World Bank Open Data}}</ref> The rate has fallen since the early 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?end=2022&locations=AF&start=1983&view=chart|title=World Bank Open Data|website=World Bank Open Data}}</ref>

Crude Birth Rate (CBR), Total Fertility Rate (TFR) and Wanted Fertility Rate (WFR):<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/FR248/FR248.pdf |title=The DHS Program – Quality information to plan, monitor and improve population, health, and nutrition programs |access-date=30 June 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019172926/http://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/FR248/FR248.pdf |archive-date=19 October 2014 }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable static-row-numbers static-row-header-text"
|-
! rowspan=2 | year
! colspan=3 | crude birth rate (CBR)
! colspan=3 | total fertility rate (TFR)
! colspan=3 | wanted fertility rate (WFR)
|-
! total !! urban !! rural
! total !! urban !! rural
! total !! urban !! rural
|-
| 2010
| style="text-align:right;" | 35.6
| style="text-align:right;" | 34.7
| style="text-align:right;" | 35.9
| style="text-align:right;" | 5.1
| style="text-align:right;" | 4.5
| style="text-align:right;" | 5.2
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" |
|-
| 2015
| style="text-align:right;" | 36.8 {{increase}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 35.8 {{increase}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 37.1 {{increase}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 5.3 {{increase}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 4.8 {{increase}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 5.4 {{increase}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 4.4 {{decrease}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 3.7 {{decrease}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 4.6 {{decrease}}
|-
| 2022–23
| style="text-align:right;" | 36.0 {{decrease}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 32.0 {{decrease}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 38.0 {{increase}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 5.4 {{increase}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 4.3 {{decrease}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 5.8 {{increase}}
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" |
| style="text-align:right;" |
|}
Fertility data by province in 2015 DHS Survey<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.statcompiler.com/en/#|title=STATcompiler|website=statcompiler.com|access-date=17 February 2020}}</ref> and 2022–23 MICS Survey:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mics.unicef.org/sites/mics/files/Afghanistan%202022-23%20MICS_English.pdf|title=Afghanistan MICS 2022–23|website=mics.unicef.org|access-date=30 November 2024}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! style="width:100pt;" rowspan=2 | Province
! colspan=2 | TFR
|-
! 2015!! 2023
|-
| '''Afghanistan'''
| '''5.3'''||'''5.4''' {{increase}}
|-
| [[Kabul Province|Kabul]]
| 4.6||3.8 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Kapisa Province|Kapisa]]
| 4.8||5.6 {{increase}}
|-
| [[Parwan Province|Parwan]]
| 5.7||5.0 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Wardak Province|Wardak]]
| 4.2||5.3 {{increase}}
|-
| [[Logar Province|Logar]]
| 4.2||6.2 {{increase}}
|-
| [[Nangarhar Province|Nangarhar]]
| 6.4||5.6 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Laghman Province|Laghman]]
| 7.3||6.2 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Panjshir Province|Panjshir]]
| 3.2||3.5 {{increase}}
|-
| [[Baghlan Province|Baghlan]]
| 4.4||5.4 {{increase}}
|-
| [[Bamyan Province|Bamyan]]
| 5.4||4.2 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Ghazni Province|Ghazni]]
| 2.8||5.6 {{increase}}
|-
| [[Paktika Province|Paktika]]
| 5.3||6.3 {{increase}}
|-
| [[Paktia Province|Paktia]]
| 5.2||5.7 {{increase}}
|-
| [[Khost Province|Khost]]
| 5.6||5.3 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Kunar Province|Kunar]]
| 6.8||6.4 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Nuristan Province|Nuristan]]
| 8.9||5.6 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Badakhshan Province|Badakhshan]]
| 5.3||5.1 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Takhar Province|Takhar]]
| 5.7||5.9 {{increase}}
|-
| [[Kunduz Province|Kunduz]]
| 4.4||6.4 {{increase}}
|-
| [[Samangan Province|Samangan]]
| 5.1||4.3 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Balkh Province|Balkh]]
| 5.5||4.9 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Sar-e Pol Province|Sar-e Pol]]
| 4.8||5.5 {{increase}}
|-
| [[Ghor Province|Ghor]]
| 5.8||4.8 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Daykundi Province|Daykundi]]
| 5.2||4.8 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Urozgan Province|Urozgan]]
| 8.8||5.6 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Zabul Province|Zabul]]
| 5.1||7.8 {{increase}}
|-
| [[Kandahar Province|Kandahar]]
| 6.5||6.3 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Jawzjan]]
| 3.9||5.5 {{increase}}
|-
| [[Faryab Province|Faryab]]
| 6.2||6.4 {{increase}}
|-
| [[Helmand Province|Helmand]]
| 4.7||7.3 {{increase}}
|-
| [[Badghis Province|Badghis]]
| 6.6||5.8 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Herat Province|Herat]]
| 4.8||4.4 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Farah Province|Farah]]
| 5.4||7.1 {{increase}}
|-
| [[Nimruz Province|Nimruz]]
| 5.4||6.2 {{increase}}
|}