The World Bank's top economists have said that half of Afghanistan's population currently lives below the poverty line, TOLO News reported.

More than 40% of the population is living on less than one meal a day and 97% are expected to have fallen below the poverty line by the end of the year. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal ...

FRONTLINE takes a look at the state of Afghanistan — from the economy to women’s rights and humanitarian crises — two years after the Taliban’s takeover.

Furthermore, 85% of the population is said to live under the poverty line and as many as 95% may be facing food insecurity. According to UNICEF , an estimated 16 million children in Afghanistan ...

Aware that poverty levels are very high in Afghanistan, ... During the previous regime, despite massive international aid, the percentage of the population below the poverty line was 55 percent.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hundreds of men using heroin, opium and meth were strewn over a hillside above Kabul in tents or lying in the dirt. Some of them overdose, and quietly slip across the line ...

Poverty in Afghanistan under the Taliban. Since the Taliban came to power, more than half of Afghanistan's population has slipped below the poverty line.

KABUL, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- As the world is going to observe the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on Thursday, poverty still haunts local people in post-war Afghanistan. Decades of ...