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Afghanistan continues to experience marginal improvements in food security since the large degradation in the situation following the political transition of 2021. Nonetheless, over a third of Afghanistan’s population (14.2...

Afghanistan’s economy remains exceedingly fragile, and the food insecurity remains alarmingly high. In October 2023, during the post-harvest season, approximately 13.1 million people, accounting...

Highlight: According to the unofficial data from the National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA),the year-on-year headline inflation is now at negative 2.83 percent as of May 2023—primarily driven by...

Highlights: According to the data reported in the WoAA2022 shown in [3], 89 percent of households and 91 percent of Afghans had food expenditure lower than the nominal food poverty...

Global food and energy prices continue to put pressure on basic household prices in Afghanistan: rising inflation and slow recovery in nominal wages have decreased the affordability...

The conflict in Ukraine started on 24 February 2022. Besides devastating the lives of the population of Ukraine and decimating critical parts of the country’s infrastructure and economy, the armed conflict has...

High acute food insecurity persists across Afghanistan, as a combination of a collapsing economy and drought is depriving nearly 20 million Afghans of food, classified in Crisis or Emergency...

Afghanistan’s protracted food crisis has deepened and widened with a record high of nearly 19 million people experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, classified...

The current political uncertainty clouds the future macroeconomic pathways for Afghanistan. With limited data and the national economic policy in a state of flux, it is a challenge to provide full scale...

Nearly 11 million people in Afghanistan are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) due to conflict, COVID-19, high...