What does Afghanistan produce and export?

Afghanistan ranks in the top ten producers of 3 commodities: pistachios (#9, 0.2% of world output in 2024), almonds (#10, 1.8% of world output in 2024), silk (#10, 0.1% of world output in 2024). It is a top-ten exporter of cotton (#10, 1.3% of world export value in 2024).

Share of world production, 2024. Countries with no reported production are unshaded.

What does Afghanistan produce?

Commodities where Afghanistan is a top-ten producer
Commodity	World rank	Share of world	Production	Year	Source
Pistachios Fruit & vegetables	9	0.2%	2,825 t	2024	FAOSTAT
Almonds Fruit & vegetables	10	1.8%	69,316 t	2024	FAOSTAT
Silk Fibres & other raw materials	10	0.1%	500 t	2024	FAOSTAT

What does Afghanistan export?

Afghanistan's largest commodity exports by value. Each bar's share is that commodity's share of world trade in it, not its share of Afghanistan's own exports — the two are unrelated and shown so a bar near 100% marks a commodity Afghanistan dominates globally rather than one it merely exports a lot of.

Top 1 Afghanistan commodity exports in 2024
Rank	Commodity	Export value (US$)	Share of world
1	Cotton	$226.1 million	1.3%
	Rest of world	$0	99%

Afghanistan's own tracked-export mix

Unlike the chart above, this treemap sizes each commodity by its share of Afghanistan's own $618.7 million of tracked exports, not by world trade. Cotton alone is 37% of it. See the full export dependency report for how Afghanistan compares with other countries.

Commodities where Afghanistan is a top-ten exporter
Commodity	World rank	Share of world exports	Export value	Year
Cotton	10	1.3%	$226.1 million	2024

Sources: FAOSTAT (crops and livestock), USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (minerals), Energy Institute Statistical Review (energy) for production; CEPII BACI for trade. Ranks count only the commodities on this site.

Afghanistan in the pattern reports

What the cross-commodity reports under Patterns say about Afghanistan, computed from the same data as this page.

What Afghanistan uses

Afghanistan had about 41 million people and a food supply of 2,315 kilocalories per person a day in FAO's 2023 food balance sheets. Its eight largest supplies among the commodities tracked there:

Largest domestic supplies of tracked commodities in Afghanistan, 2023
Commodity	Domestic supply	Share of world	kg per person	Self-sufficiency	Imported
Wheat	7.7 million tonnes	0.9%	163 (#8 of 143)	55%	45%
Milk	2.4 million tonnes	0.2%	37 (#106 of 142)	94%	5.9%
Rice	1.4 million tonnes	0.2%	32 (#62 of 141)	43%	57%
Potatoes	1.2 million tonnes	0.3%	26 (#83 of 143)	74%	26%
Grapes	749 thousand tonnes	1%	16 (#11 of 143)	157%	0.4%
Corn	636 thousand tonnes	0.1%	7.6 (#83 of 140)	51%	49%
Sugar	429 thousand tonnes	0.3%	10 (#120 of 143)	0.5%	100%
Apples	332 thousand tonnes	0.3%	7.2 (#68 of 143)	78%	33%

FAO reports a negative domestic supply for Afghanistan's yams (−3 thousand tonnes; production 0 tonnes, imports 0 tonnes, exports 3 thousand tonnes); tomatoes (−271 thousand tonnes; production 0 tonnes, imports 56 thousand tonnes, exports 327 thousand tonnes), meaning exports exceed production plus imports in the year. These are not counted as use and are left out of the table above.

FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets. Per-person rank counts countries of at least 1 million people. See consumption and self-sufficiency.

Who supplies Afghanistan

Single-supplier markets. Afghanistan buys half or more of its imports from one country in 1 of 1 import markets of $250 million or more, among them rice from Pakistan (99%, $393 million). Import dependency.

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Data updated 22 October 2026.

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