Afghanistan is a unique state located in Southwest or Central Asia. The capital is Kabul and this is where most of the businesses and profits are located. It is a very mountainous, dry country that has extremely hot summers and very cold, bitter winters. Almost all of Afghans are a type of Muslim religion, but 84% of them are Sunni and the other 15% are Shiites. Afghans mainly speak Dari or Pashtu. About 50% speak Dari for transactions and business related situations, and 35% speak Pashtu. Afghanistan has an Islamic Republic form of government which is a form that has been used by only Muslim states.
Afghanistan sits in the middle of Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, China, Pakistan, and Iran. This means that Afghanistan is a landlocked state because it is surrounded by countries and land with no sturdy waterways. It is a unitary state because one central powerful authority rules the country and controls everything that happens inside the country, what is getting imported and exported from the country, and all the goods made inside the country. Most Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have this type of government because of the lack of industrialized development and technology. Afghanistan is a sovereignty state which means it can govern themselves and stay a stable country. It is independent from control of other countries from its internal affairs. Afghanistan is a Prorupted state which means that it’s compact but has an extension to try and gain access to a waterway or resource or to split up a boundary between two other states.
Afghanistan is a developing country that is in stage 2 on the Rostows Model scale. This is because the primary jobs and agriculture is almost the only way the country can make money. Since agriculture is the main way Afghanistan makes money, most of its workers are in the Primary sector. They get materials from the Earth’s ground and use it to try and develop the country and make a profit. Usually LDCs have the majority of the workers in the Primary sector because farming, mining, and fishing usually does not make nowhere near enough money to develop the country and make a big profit. Afghanistan lacks industrialized technology which is holding it back from developing further and progressing to the next stage on Rostows Model. The more workers that are in the Tertiary sector or Secondary sector, the more money the country is able to make so they can create industrialized technology and improve on health care and other machinery to develop. Afghanistan only has 5% of the workers in the Secondary sector which means that the country has little manufacturing and Industry type technology and buildings to make machinery and advance the country. Tertiary Sector is a little bit more common in Afghanistan with 15% of the workers that provide services and exchange goods for payment. Development is very important in a country including Afghanistan because it enables the country to progress in the world and be able to trade with more countries and benefit from goods and services.
The more people that can read and write, the higher the literacy rate, which means that the country has people that are smart that can mature the country’s economy. Unfortunately for Afghanistan, there are only 28.1 % of the total population that can read and write and most of them are men. 43.1% of the men can read and write, but only 12.6% of the females can read and write. This is very bad for the country because first it shows how the men and women are treated unequally because the women have less rights and educational rights. Also, this shows how there are very little people in the state that has the ability to create machinery and technology to develop the country and increase the economy’s profits. The Human Development Index (HDI) is a way to tell if the country is developed, developing, or not developed. Afghanistan is not one of the worst countries on the HDI scale but it is lower than the average because it is not
