Five years into Taliban rule, Afghanistan plunges into a state of collapse – visualised

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The Guardian, 15 August 2026

Some very useful graphs on Afghanistan’s socio-economic situation five years after the second coming of the Taleban – although the province of Ghor is misspelled (in the graph for child marriages).

Particularly striking is the one that compares its relation between population and economic growth with other countries of the wider region. the one on inflation would be more useful if it covered not only the period from 2023-26.

Also compare with the Economist’s rendering, “Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is, for once, peaceful. Also very hungry, poor and repressed”.