Transcript Socioeconomics of Afghanistan

Socioeconomics of Afghanistan
Myungjin (Helena) Jung
Honors English II / Block 3
10/17/12
What is Socioeconomics?
Socioeconomics - social
and economic factors of
a certain country
Socioeconomics is the
competition of the
country using the
resources and dealing
with how the culture,
society, and economy
impacts the population
(SASE).
(scielosp)
“8 out of the 60th unstable country is Afghanistan”
(SASE), and so it is a very unstable country.
Demographics: Climate
Afghanistan is the
49th largest country
by landmass but only
12% is arable
(Central Intelligence
Agency)
Cold in winter,
Hot in summer
Bad place to farm.
Climate very extreme
(Climatemps)
Mountains and
valleys
(Pain and Goodhand 10)
Demographics:
Population
Population: almost 32 million
people
21 Different Ethnicities
(Pashtuns, biggest) all with
different settlement patterns
and linguistics
(History Army Brochure)
(Breede 3)
A lot of the workers are young because
population mostly had young people.
Social Status
Poor countries have
more childbirths in
order to have more
support for the family
but not all of the
offsprings survive.
(eatpress)
Infant mortality rate (reported in June 2002): 220 per 1000 live
births (ICARDA)
Average Afghan woman gives birth: almost 7 children,
compared to average of 1.7 children per woman in the ‘high
human development countries’ (ICARDA)
“In the USA, seven or eight women per 100,000 die in
childbirth. In Afghanistan, it is likely to be around 1,700 per
100,000” (ICARDA).
“The average estimated daily caloric intake of 1745 calories is
about 17% below the estimated minimum daily need of rural
Afghans. Only 6% of the population was estimated to have
access to safe drinking water in 1998” (ICARDA).
Old people in Kabul (most populous
city) usually consume only Naan
(bread) and water (Breede 3).
There still aren’t enough
hospitals in Afghanistan that
are well facilitated (ICARDA).
People and Society
Birth Rate: 39.3 births/1,000 population (2012 est.) {13th in the world}
Death Rate:14.59 deaths/1,000 population (July 2012 est.) {8th in the world}
Risk high for major infectious disease
Not good medical facilities
Literacy Rate:definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 28.1%
Because of the many different ethnicities
and rocky climate, communication amongst
others are difficult.
male: 43.1%
female: 12.6% (2000 est.)
School Life Expectancy:
The security of Afghanistan
is really unstable.
male: 11 years old
female: 7 years old
(CIA)
(International Educational Media, Afghanistan)
(Breede 7)
Economy
GDP - amount of money all the goods made (market value)
- GDP: $21.5 billion but $700
per person 221st in the world
= bad (Breede 10)
- Unemployment rate: 35%
(CIA)
- Illegal marketing like: opium
(Breede 16)
(bbc Afghan food)
After the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, the economy
improved significantly. Many global assistance was also
the cause of a better economy. But even after the
progress, Afghanistan is still a poor country, needing
foreign help for security, food, ad housing. The Afghan
Government must become organized and help its people
(CIA).
Culture
Afghanistan is made
up of many tribal
regions all added up together.
(Breede 4)
Family ties are robust and said to be
“the only stable social unit in the
society.”
The traditional political culture deals
with hierarchy, accepted behavior,
kinship an beliefs (Breede 4).
More on Culture
(Breede 8)
The tribal system started the unstable chain of the Afghan
government.
Because of the different ethnicities, there are different opinions
about different matters. People of their own tribes were
comfortable with each other while different members of tribes
were always tense.
Pashtuns, the largest tribe group, have many sub-tribal groups
that don’t receive equal voting rights when deciding over a
conflict.
With ideological extremism for some and a long history of
anarchy and war, the Afghan culture brought the economy of the
country (Breede 5-8).
Sunni - Muslims who believe their leader as someone appointed to the people
Shia - Muslims who believe their leader must be a descendant from Mohammad
(World History Notes)
Religion is important with
socioeconomics because it ties in with
politics as who would be the next
successor of the country (Breede 15).
Religion
Most people in Afghanistan
follow Islam. Many of them are
Sunni while the minority are
Shia (Breede 15).
Christian and Muslim tensions
from other countries also affect
Afghanistan.
(Al-Fatiha Yolasite Quran)
For a better society and economy
Afghanistan must...
(Asia News Afghan Schools)
focus on educating their
children for the future.
find better ways to farm
since 40% of the
population depend on
farming on only 12%
arable soil.
have a well sophisticated
government (Breede 17).
respect other religions
especially in a country
with the majority people
being Muslim.
Works Cited
"AFGHANISTAN SEED AND CROP IMPROVEMENT SITUATION." AFGHANISTAN SEED
AND CROP IMPROVEMENT SITUATION. ICARDA, n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2012.
Breede, Christian H. A SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE OF AFGHANISTAN. Massachusetts:
n.p., 2008. PDF.
"Central Intelligence Agency." CIA. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2012.
Pain, Adam, and Jonathan Goodhand. Afghanistan: Current Employment and Socio-economic
Situation and Prospects. Switzerland: InFocus, Crisis, Mar. 2002. PDF.