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This is a College Upper Division course on Demography.

Each group had to pick a country and come up with a research question.

My Group’s Research Question was: How do conflict and wars affect the demographic structure of Afghanistan, in terms of fertility rates, death rates, population composition and distribution?

Each person in the group is talking about the Soviet War, Civil War, etc and how that affected Afghanistan.

MY AREA of focus is the affect of the U.S War on Afghanistan from the beginning of the war to the current present situation of Afghanistan. This is NOT a history paper of the war, but an analysis on how this war affected the economy, mortality, fertility, economy, and how it ties back to demography.

I found a really good article that I like that would help you write my portion of this research paper: https://www.eurasiareview.com/18012019-the-cost-and-economic-consequences-of-the-war-in-afghanistan-analysis/

In this article there are a bunch of citations and links to the actual research paper that you can pull information from and you can use those source to make a nice Bibliography at the end with all the sources.

Please add in any graphs in the paper that you think will be helpful in terms of data.

You should make this paper 5-8 pages, I also have a little outline-below to give you an idea, but the outline I created is super basic and obviously a lot can be added/changed.

• U.S. War in Afghanistan
  • Introduction: On October 7, 2001, the U.S military invades Afghanistan
  • Fertility: From 2000 to 2015, the Total Fertility declined significantly from 7.5 to 4.65 (World Bank, 2015)
    • Drop in TFR due to factors such as female literacy and labor market participation (Basu, 2002)
    • Ministry of Public Health (MoPH Afghanistan, 2015) established a basic package of health services (BPHS)
  • Mortality: 111,000 people were killed from 2001 to 2015. (Crawford, 2016)
    • Lacina and Gleditsch’s model: 250 casualties a day or 1750 a week
    • War deaths not just from combat but serious injuries that ended in death, malnutrition, damaged health systems, and diseases
  • Consequences of War
  • It can take up to 21 years for a country stuck in war to achieve a stable GDP ( Collier, 2004)
  • Economic cost of war was high; country has a GDP per capita of only $585.85, amongst the poorest country (Collier, 2004)
    • Foreign investment has dropped to their lowest level

Let me know if you have any questions!