South Asia
Afghanistan
EU Compliance · Geopolitical Risk · Sourcing Attractiveness
Why these scores
EU Compliance, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Geopolitical Risk, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Attractiveness, by dimension
9 = most attractive · methodology & sources
Analyst scores, last reviewed June 2026; each dimension's sources and cadence are on its methodology page.
Data layers
Afghanistan and the EU
EU imports from
€52m
0.0% of extra-EU
EU exports to
€307m
0.0% of extra-EU
EU supplier rank
EU's #152 supplier
EU trade balance
balanced or surplus
coverage 5.89
2025 annual totals, Eurostat COMEXT. EU trade board →
Electricity & grid
National sources · carbon from Ember · estimated
Industrial
98
EUR/MWh
Consumer
55
EUR/MWh, all-in
Grid carbon
124
gCO₂e/kWh
Renewables
–
of generation
regulated market
Power market
● Conflict / governance collapseMarket model
Vertically integrated state utility
Direct PPA
None
grid access: closed
Reserve margin
–
Regulator
Not independent
Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW)
Dependence on imported power for about 80 percent of supply amid governance collapse, with no domestic generation buffer and supply hostage to neighbours' terms and payment capacity.
Tracked infrastructure
Operating assets tracked by Global Energy Monitor (CC BY 4.0); counts are tracked facilities, not exhaustive totals. Energy overview →
Metal mining
Tagged mines
1
none in the merged layer
Acid-drainage prone
1
high water-risk ore class
Main commodities
Copper
Mine-water verifiability
Blind spot
no functioning national open monitoring
Water risk is inferred from the ore class, not site measurements. Global mines: full layer →
Demographics
UN World Population Prospects 2024 · medium variant
Median age
17.1
→ 23 by 2050
Fertility
4.76
above replacement
Working-age
54.7%
aged 15–64
Old-age dep.
4.4
→ 6.3 by 2050
Median age 1990–2050
Population 42.6M · still growing past 2100
By 2050: +81% (76.9M)