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Afghan population has increased from 9 million in 1960 to 40 now, but it's not raining any more.

The last time I checked afghanistan had an infant mortality rate of over one hundred. That's a hundred babies dying per thousand live births before the age of five I think.

I know once you get infant mortality rate down to about five, the last five is very difficult to make go away but a hundred? That is such unnecessary pain and suffering that should be relatively easy to reduce.

Not sure when you checked, but it's been steadily sinking and is under 50 now, and there's no reason to believe it won't continue that way (it fell even under the Taliban). I'm not sure they'll get to Western levels, but they're closing the gap.

Thank you. Seems like I had just really poor search skills. I somehow reached here https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/infant-mortalit... which I guess has not been updated since the early nineties?

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/infant-mortalit... archived at https://archive.fo/v3bco

Thank you for the correction. This is great news (to me)!

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