Education in Afghanistan includes K-12 and Higher education, which is supervised by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Higher Education in Kabul, Afghanistan. According to the Human Development Index, Afghanistan is the 15th least developed country in the world. This is due to decades of war and abandonment by the international community, but on the positive note the country is being carefully rebuilt.
Since 2002 Afghanistan is going through a nationwide rebuilding process, and despite some setbacks due to the ongoing Taliban insurgency the education sector is improving gradually. New educational institutions are established all across the country and more students being enrolled. By 2011 there were 8.2 million students were attending schools in Afghanistan, a country which has about 26 million people living in it.
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