Afghanistan

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ulation is between the ages of 0 and 14, 55 percent of the population is between the ages of 15 and 63, and 3 percent of the population is 65 years of age or older. The population growth rate is 3.48 percent. The country has many ethnic groups, with 38 percent being Pashtun, 25 percent being Tajik, and 19 percent being Hazara. The minor ethnic groups makes up 18 percent of the population, with 12 percent including Aimaks, Turkmen, Balochs, and others. The last 6 percent are Uzbek. With all this ethnic diversity you wouldn’t be surprised that this country has over 30 languages. The most dominant language is Persian (Dari) which about 50 percent of the population speaks. Coming in second would be Pashtu, which about 35 percent of the nation speaks. Most of the country’s people are bilingual. The dominant religion of the country is Islam and 99 percent of the country practice it, with 84 percent being Sunni Muslims, 15 percent being Shi’a Muslims, and 1 percent being other religions. The literacy rate in the country is very poor with only 31 percent of the population over 15 years of age can read and write.
Pakistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, China, and Turkmenistan surround Afghanistan. This country is made up of 30 provinces: Badakhshan, Badghis, Baghlan, Balkh, Bamian, Farah, Faryab, Ghazni, Ghowr, Helmand, Herat, Jowzjan, Kabol, Kandahar, Kapisa, Konar, Kondoz, Laghman, Lowgar, Nangarhar, Nimruz, Oruzgan, Paktia, Paktika, Parvan, Samangan, Sar-e Pol, Takhar, Vardak, Zabol, Nuristan (note- there may be two new provinces of Nuristan), and Khowst. The capital city of Afghanistan is Kabul.
As of this moment Afghanistan has established a democratic government with a foreign minister named Abdullah Abdullah and a president from the Northern Alliance named Burhanuddin Rabbani. Afghanistan’s government was very fluctuant. Afghanistan was ruled by a monarchy since it was created and during its independence from the UK on August 1...