An Overview of Afghanistan's Major Goods Imports From 2011 to 2020

Abstract

It is a generic source for academia, government strategic planning committees, and inside-focused businesses which directly self-independent a country economically. Therefore, it is very important to know those major imported goods that motivate internal business and government could flourish new jobs and reduce external factors influence a country. The data was in an open source as secondary data from the worldwide website. Furthermore, the data was analyzed through Power BI, Jamovi, and Excel software. The results showed that Afghanistan had $116 billion in imports of 21 major items from 2011 through 2020. The top five imported items were mineral products $19697866599 (16.92%), vegetable products $12759311935 (10.96%), transportation materials $11702351555 (10.05%), Foodstuffs materials $10447618796 (8.977%), animal and vegetable bi-products $4638743657 (3.98%). It is highly suggested to the current Afghan government to motivate the private, governmental, and non-governmental organizations to sharpen the human resource in these sectors, which bring new businesses and full fill the human and governmental needs for standing on their feet. On another side, Afghanistan import very little amount of weapons, which give a positive message to those terrorist countries which export and import more weapons.