Afghanistan: Operational facts and figures, January to December 2025
In 2025, Afghanistan’s humanitarian situation remained among the most severe in the world, with millions of people struggling to meet their basic needs. Economic hardship, poverty, and decades of past conflict continued to undermine household resilience, while climate-related shocks such as droughts, floods, and earthquakes further exacerbated vulnerabilities.
Food insecurity, limited access to healthcare, and shortages of safe water and sanitation services persisted across much of the country. As a result, large segments of the population remained dependent on humanitarian assistance for survival, highlighting the continuing urgency of sustained and principled humanitarian action.
The International Committee of the Red Cross continued to respond to humanitarian needs across Afghanistan by supporting essential healthcare services, providing physical rehabilitation for people with disabilities, assisting vulnerable households in restoring livelihoods and sources of income, and improving access to clean water, sanitation, and sustainable energy. We also maintained regular visits to places of detention to help improve living conditions for detainees and to promote humane treatment and respect for their rights.
As Afghanistan remains one of the most heavily contaminated countries in the world with explosive remnants of war, our teams worked closely with the Afghan Red Crescent Society to raise awareness of mine and explosive risks within communities and to promote safe behaviors aimed at reducing accidents and saving lives.
A look at the measurable impact of our work in 2025:
- 1,268,343 patients, (64 per cent women and children), received primary health care at 47 health facilities of the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) that are supported by the ICRC.
- 337,788 doses of routine vaccinations were administered, and 9,069 malnourished children benefited from the ARCS nutrition programme at the 47 clinics.
- 218,824 patients (35% per cent women and girls) were assisted in 7 ICRC-supported physical rehabilitation centres.
- 32,905 prostheses and orthoses were manufactured, and 353,666 physiotherapy sessions were held.
- 120,024 people received multipurpose cash assistance to meet their basic needs.
- 107,992 farmers received cash grants to increase their food production through farming activities.
- Around 17,000 people benefited from improved electricity supply.
- Over 775,000 people living in urban areas in Charikar, Faizabad, Herat, Jalalabad, Kabul, Kandahar, Kunduz, Mazar and Shindand gained access to clean drinking water.
- 115 cases of missing people were resolved and their whereabouts ascertained.
- 210,583 people (130,742 children, 41,851 men and 37,990 women) in six regions contaminated by weapons were trained in Risk Awareness and Safer Behaviour (RASB) by ARCS volunteers.
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