The Afghanistan Living Conditions Survey (ALCS), a joint study by the European Union and Afghanistan’s Central Statistics Organisation, showed the national poverty rate rising to 55% in 2016-2017 from 38% in 2011-2012.The poverty rate has worsened sharply as the economy and GDP per capita stalled and the Taliban insurgency spread, with more than half the population living on less than a dollar a day by 2018.