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| Region | Testing Format | Fee | Test Dates |
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| Herat | TOEFL iBT | $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 |
Sat., Feb 16, 2019 Sat., Feb 23, 2019 Sat., Mar 16, 2019 Sat., May 11, 2019 Sat., Jun 01, 2019 Sat., Jul 06, 2019 |
| Jalalabad | TOEFL iBT | $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 |
Sat., Feb 16, 2019 Sat., Mar 09, 2019 Sat., Apr 13, 2019 Sat., May 18, 2019 Sat., Jun 15, 2019 |
| Kabul | TOEFL iBT | $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 |
Sat., Mar 09, 2019 Sat., Mar 16, 2019 Sat., Mar 30, 2019 Sat., Apr 06, 2019 Sat., Apr 13, 2019 Sat., May 11, 2019 Sat., May 18, 2019 Sun., May 19, 2019 Sat., Jun 01, 2019 Sat., Jun 15, 2019 Sat., Jun 29, 2019 Sat., Jul 06, 2019 Sun., Jul 28, 2019 |
| Kandahar | TOEFL iBT | $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 |
Sat., Feb 23, 2019 Sat., Mar 30, 2019 Sat., Apr 13, 2019 Sat., Jul 06, 2019 Sun., Jul 28, 2019 |
| Mazar-I-Sharif | TOEFL iBT | $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 |
Sat., Feb 16, 2019 Sat., Mar 09, 2019 Sat., Apr 06, 2019 Sat., Jun 01, 2019 Sun., Jul 28, 2019 |
Afghanistan, officially: Pashto Da Afġānistān Islāmī Dschomhoriyat, Dari Dschomhuri-ye Eslāmi-ye Afghānestān , German Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, landlocked country in Central Asia with (2018) 37.2 million residents; The capital is Kabul.
Country facts
- Official name: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- License plate: AFG
- ISO-3166: AF, AFG (4)
- Internet domain:.af
- Currency: 1 Afghani (Af) = 100 pulse
- Area: 652 860 km²
- Population (2018): 37.2 million
- Capital: Kabul
- Official language (s): Pashto, Dari
- Form of government: Islamic presidential republic
- Administrative division: 12 prefectures with 36 districts
- Head of State: President Ashraf Ghani
- Religion (s): Muslims
- Time zone: Central European Time +3.5 hours
- National holiday: August 19th
Location and infrastructure
- Location (geographical): Central Asia
- Position (coordinates): between 29 ° 25 ‘and 38 ° 30’ north latitude and 60 ° 30 ‘and 74 ° 53’ east longitude
- Climate: continental steppe climate, in the southwest desert climate, in the northeast high mountain climate
- Highest mountain: Nowshak (7485 m)
- Road network (2017): 17,900 km (paved), 17,000 km (unpaved)
- Railway network: none
Population
- Annual population growth: 2.4%
- Birth rate (2018): 3.8%
- Death rate (2018): 1.3%
- Average age: 19 years
- Average life expectancy: 52.1 years (women 53.6; men 50.6)
- Age structure (2018): 40.9% younger than 15 years, 2.6% older than 65 years
- Literacy rate (15 year olds and older): 38%
- Mobile phone contracts (pre-paid and post-paid): 67.4 per 100 residents (2017)
- Internet users: 10.6 per resident (2016)
Economy
- GDP per capita (2017): US $ 570
- Total GDP (2017): US $ 20.8 billion
- GNI per capita (2017): US $ 466
- Education expenditure (2017): 3.9% of GDP
- Military expenditure (2017): 0.9% of GDP
- Unemployment rate (2017): 23.9%
Business
After almost four decades of war, Afghanistan is now more than ever one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world. The mostly low economic growth is mainly based on externally financed infrastructure and development projects by an international donor as well as on transfers from Afghans living abroad, mainly from Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Dubai (United Arab Emirates). In 2015, the construction of a natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan began, which will lead through Afghanistan to Pakistan and India (TAPI).
Until the 1960s, Afghanistan was characterized by a pronounced subsistence economy due to its nature and poor transport infrastructure. Mining and commercial products only supplied local markets. State development programs in the 1950s to 1970s promoted infrastructure expansion (roads, airports), mining (hard coal, natural gas) and resource-oriented industries (cotton processing, cement production), but neglected the agricultural sector. The fighting during the time of the Soviet occupation (1979-89) and the subsequent civil war completely destroyed Afghanistan’s economic infrastructure or rendered it unusable by mining. Insufficient rainfall repeatedly leads to droughts with missing or extremely poor harvests. Heroin producers.
Foreign trade: The foreign trade balance is very negative. Afghanistan is dependent on imports of consumer goods, food (especially wheat, sugar, tea), petroleum products, machinery, energy, electrical goods and capital. Mostly dried fruits, nuts and carpets are exported. The main trading partners are Pakistan, India, Iran and the PRC. In addition, Afghanistan developed into a hub for international smuggling between Dubai, Iran, the Central Asian CIS republics and Pakistan. In addition to opium, oil, high-tech products and weapons in particular are smuggled.
Agriculture
Agriculture is an important pillar of the Afghan economy. A quarter of the workforce work there, but they only generate around 11% of GDP. Due to the high mountain and desert character, only one eighth of the total area can be cultivated. Irrigated agriculture and oasis management in valleys and basins as well as extensively used pasture management are characteristic. The main agricultural products are wheat, maize, barley, rice, cotton, sugar cane, fruit, as well as almonds, nuts and pistachios. Karakul sheep breeding plays an important role in nomadic livestock farming.
The cultivation of opium poppies, the starting product for raw opium, grew on almost 328,000 hectares by 2017, especially in the provinces of Helmand and Urusgan. Annual opium production was estimated to be 9,000 t. This makes Afghanistan by far the largest producer of opium.
Natural resources
The effects of the war over decades and the inadequate traffic development have hindered the development of mining so far. So far, hard coal, rock salt, natural gas, copper, barite and talc have been exploited from the mineral resources. The province of Badakhshan has been an important site of lapis lazuli since ancient times. Other mineral resources, in particular crude oil, iron, lithium, cobalt and gold, are still insufficiently developed. The national energy demand is met primarily by oil and electricity imports, mostly from Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, as well as by coal, wood and natural gas. A good 80% of domestic electricity generation is based on hydropower.