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| Nation Building: A Report Card |
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The numbers behind the effort to rebuild Afghanistan |
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Posted Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004
E D U C A T I O N
1 million
Afghan children, mostly boys, enrolled in school under the Taliban
4 million
Children now attending school—the most in the country's history—including 1.4 million girls
M I L I T A R Y
11,000
U.S. troops in Afghanistan
2,000
Foreign troops belonging to the U.S.-led coalition
6,000
Troops belonging to NATO-led security force based in Kabul
F O R E I G N A I D
$4 billion
Aid pledged by the U.S. to Afghanistan in 2002, through the end of 2004
$5.2 billion
Aid pledged by other donors, including the European Union, Britain, Japan, Germany, Canada and the World Bank
C A S U A L T I E S
108
American soldiers killed in Afghanistan since October 2001
600
U.S. troops seriously injured
3,300
Afghan civilians killed
R E F U G E E S
2.5 million
Afghans who have returned home since the Taliban's fall
1 million
Afghan refugees still abroad
180,000
Afghans who remain internally displaced
W A G E S
$2.70
Average daily wage of an Afghan worker during the Taliban regime
$6.25
Average daily wage now
Sources: UNICEF; U.S. Central Command; U.S. State Department; Christian Science Monitor; Marc Herold (University of New Hampshire) and Unknown News; UNHCR and Deutsche Presse Agentur
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