Afghanistan Relocation Index

How Afghanistan scores

Some labor and basic service access may exist in parts of the country. | Local infrastructure is not universally absent.

• Peace and conflict safety20
• Immigrant safety18
• Visa accessibility35
• Residence permit realism25
• Labor market access45
• Healthcare30
• Civil rights20
• Discrimination safety15
• Status security20
• Infrastructure reliability40
• Cost of living sustainability52

Recent news impact

No single, clearly enacted and relocation-relevant policy or safety/security change within the last ~45 days could be confirmed from the provided materials. The supplied documents mainly reflect (a) ongoing UN sanctions governance and (b) sanctions-list maintenance in other jurisdictions, plus (c) displacement/border flow monitoring. These are important for long-run compliance and volatility context, but they do not constitute a new short-term shock that would materially change Afghanistan’s near-term relocation outlook on their own.

Sources

• Fragile Gains, Deepening Subsistence Insecurity (2023–2024) (UNDP Afghanistan)United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Afghanistan (U.S. Department of State)U.S. Department of State
• 2024 Country Report on Human Rights Practices: Afghanistan (ecoI.net mirror of U.S. Department of State document)ecoI.net (document repository of U.S. Department of State report)
• Afghanistan Development Update, April 2024 (World Bank document PDF)World Bank
• Afghanistan Development Update December 2024 (World Bank news/press release page)World Bank
• Human Development Report 2023-24 (UNDP) – main report pageUNDP Human Development Reports
• Global Report 2025 – Situation overview: Afghanistan (UNHCR) (PDF)UNHCR
• S/RES/2816 (2026) (The situation in Afghanistan)UN Security Council