| |||||
| Decades: | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See also: | Other events of 2023 List of years in Afghanistan | ||||
Events in the year 2023 in Afghanistan.
According to the United Nations Development Programme, by 2022, 97% of Afghans could fall under the poverty threshold, which would plunge the country into a major humanitarian crisis and famine approaching the capital Kabul and other major towns and cities in Afghanistan, where millions of Afghan people starved to death, hundreds of thousands of more including men, women, children and babies are facing extreme acute hunger where heading into 2023.[1]
In January 2023, the Taliban officials reported deaths of at least 157 people due to Afghanistan’s harsh winter. The number had doubled in less than a week. The impact was worsened after the Taliban banned female NGO workers.[2][citation needed]
- ^ "97 percent of Afghans could plunge into poverty by mid 2022, says UNDP". UNDP. Archived from the original on 2021-09-09. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
- ^ "Extreme cold kills more than 150 people in Afghanistan, Taliban says". CNN. Retrieved 24 January 2023.