UN seeks $5 billion in aid for Afghanistan

The United Nations has launched its largest ever single-country funding appeal, saying it needs more than $5 billion in aid for Afghanistan to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in 2022


$4.44 billion
To help 22 million people in need across Afghanistan

$623 million
To assist 5.7 million Afghan refugees in other countries

Total aid requirement
$5 billion
in 2022


24.4 million
Number of Afghans in need in 2022 – almost 60% of population

22.8 million
Face acute hunger, including 8.7 million people facing emergency levels of food insecurity

4.7 million 
Are at risk of suffering from acute malnutrition in 2022, including 1.1 million children at risk of severe acute malnutrition

9.2 million 
Number of displaced people, including 700,000 forcibly displaced by conflict in 2021

80% 
Percentage of country suffering severe or serious drought. About 85% of Afghans derive income from agriculture

97% 
Percentage of Afghans that could fall below poverty line by mid-2022. About half of population lived in poverty before Taliban takeover in 2021

30% 
Percentage contraction in Afghan economy in 2021, according to International Monetary Fund prediction

$350 
Expected annual per capita income in 2022 – down from $508 in 2020


Sources: Reuters, UNOCHA 
Picture: Getty Images 
© GRAPHIC NEWS