Attachments
Interactive minimum expenditure basket calculator: https://dataforafghanistan.org/aidtoolkit/
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.