Afghanistan
Population and enabling environment
Adolescent girl population
Trends in the number of adolescent girls aged 10-19 years
Adolescent girl population share
Adolescent girl population aged 10-19 years as a percentage of the total female population
Legal frameworks
Legal frameworks that promote, enforce and monitor gender equality, SDG 5.1.1 (percentage of achievement)
Access to quality health and nutrition
Adolescent birth rate
Births per 1,000 adolescent girls, SDG 3.7.2
Demand for family planning
Trends in percentage of adolescent girls aged 15–19 years who have their need for family planning satisfied with modern methods, SDG 3.7.1
Reproductive agency
Percentage of adolescent girls aged 15-19 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care, SDG 5.6.1
Menstrual hygiene management
Percentage of adolescent girls aged 15–19 years who did not participate in school, work, or social activities during their last menstrual period
HIV
Estimated number of annual new HIV infections among adolescent girls aged 10-19 years
Anaemia
Percentage of adolescent girls aged 15-19 years with anaemia, SDG 2.2.3
Underweight and overweight
Trends in percentage of adolescent girls aged 10-19 years with a BMI at least 2SD below the median (underweight) and 1SD above the median (overweight)
HPV Vaccination
Percentage of girls who received the last dose of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine per national schedule
Access to quality learning and skills-building opportunities
Out of school rates
Percentage of girls or young women in the official age range for the level of secondary education who are not enrolled in primary, secondary, or higher education, by level of secondary education (SDG 4.1.4)
Completion rates
Percentage of a cohort of girls aged 3-5 years above the official ending age of the level of education who have completed the level of education, SDG 4.1.2
Proficiency in reading and math
Percentage of adolescent girls at the end of lower secondary achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading and math (SDG 4.1.1)
Reading
Math
Economic security
Household chores
Average weekly hours spent on unpaid household chores by girls aged 10-17 years
Unemployment rate
Percentage of adolescent girls aged 15-19 years in the labour force who are unemployed, SDG 8.5.2
NEET
Percentage of adolescent girls aged 15-19 years not in education, employment, or training, SDG 8.6.1
Poverty
Percentage of adolescent girls aged 10–17 years living in poverty in all its dimensions (SDG 1.2.2)
Freedom from violence and harmful practices
Intimate partner violence
Percentage of ever-married girls aged 15–19 years who experienced physical and/or sexual violence committed by a husband or partner in the past 12 months, SDG 5.2.1
Justification of wife-beating
Percentage of adolescent girls aged 15–19 years who consider a husband to be justified in hitting or beating his wife for at least one of four specified reasons
Child marriage
Percentage of women aged 20–24 years who were married before age 15 or age 18, SDG 5.3.1
FGM
Percentage of adolescent girls aged 15-19 years who have undergone female genital mutilation, 5.3.2
Note: The indicators presented in this profile derive from UNICEF Global Databases and other United Nations databases and draw on inter-agency estimates, nationally representative household surveys and administrative sources. Because efforts have been made to maximize the comparability of statistics across countries and time, the data featured in this profile may differ from other country-level estimates.
Data sources: Adolescent girl population–United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). 2022 Revision of World Population Prospects; Legal frameworks– Global SDG Indicators Database; Adolescent birth rate– Global SDG Indicators Database; Demand for family planning – United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). World Contraceptive Use 2022; Reproductive agency– DHS StatCompiler and MICS Surveys; Menstrual hygiene management–UNICEF Global Databases; HIV– UNAIDS Estimates; Anaemia–DHS StatCompiler; Underweight and overweight – NCD Risk Factor Collaboration; HPV Vaccination– WHO/UNICEF estimates of human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization coverage, 2022 revision; Out-of-school rates –UNESCO Institute for Statistics; Completion rates–UNESCO Institute for Statistics; Proficiency in reading and math–UNESCO Institute for Statistics; Household chores–UNICEF Global Databases; Unemployment rate– International Labour Organization; NEET rate– International Labour Organization; Poverty –UNICEF Global Databases; Intimate partner violence –UNICEF Global Databases; Justification of wife beating–UNICEF Global Databases; Child marriage–UNICEF Global Databases; FGM –UNICEF Global Databases.
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