وأوضح أن أحدث الإحصاءات المتوفرة الآن تتعلق بعام 1990، لذلك تعين على هذا الأساس، الاستقراء باستخدام معدلات النمو التي نشرها صندوق النقد الدولي.
The Committee on Contributions had noted the difficulty encountered in finding data to use in the current scale; the most recent data available for Afghanistan had been for 1990 and those data had been extrapolated using growth rate indicators published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).