Country: Afghanistan Source: Data for Afghanistan Please refer to the attached file. Summary: Data for Afghanistan estimates that as of February 2026, the average monthly poverty line per person is 2,760 Afghanis. This comprises 1,663 Afghanis for food items and 1,096 Afghanis for non-food items. See the full report for provincial poverty lines. Methodology: Baseline poverty lines: Poverty lines are drawn from Afghanistan’s Income, Expenditure and Labour Force Survey 2020 (IE&LFS; 2020), conducted by the National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) and the World Bank. Poverty lines are estimated per person per month. The food poverty line is set at the cost of obtaining 2,100 kcal per person per day from a reference basket reflecting actual Afghan food consumption, priced at Central Urban (Kabul) prices in Q1 2019 (October–December 2019). Its value was AFN 1,330 per person per month. Non-food poverty lines are area-specific (14 areas covering 8 regions × urban/rural residence) and priced in Q1 2019 (October–December 2019) prices at the time of the survey (IE&LFS; 2020). South and West Central regions are classified as rural-only and have no urban poverty line. As NSIA publishes CPI data only for 20 provinces, we fill missing provinces’ CPI with average provincial CPI by region. Please see the attached PDF report for more details on methodology.