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Afghanistan: Imports (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1956–2024 · 69 observations · forecasts to 2025 · imports_GDP

2024
69.3%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+18.5 pointsfrom 50.8%
Average, 2015–2024
42.4%10 years
Record high and low
81.4% (2003)low 7.02% (1960)

Imports (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202578.7Forecast
202469.3
202350.8
202254.5
202137.1
202036.3
201935.2
201841.0
201733.8
201632.3
201533.9

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Afghanistan documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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