As US troop levels have risen, to around 100,000 today, so have casualties.
The local literacy rate has now risen to around 75%, though progress has slowed in the last decade.
In some areas, unemployment has risen to around 15%. Youth unemployment currently runs at something over 20% on average.
Total debt in the economy has risen to around 200 per cent of GDP, up from 120 per cent six year ago.
The price of Brent crude leapt by 9%, the biggest one-day advance in three years, and has since risen to around $100 a barrel.
In the United States, the average income of the richest 10 percent of the population had risen to around 14 times that of the poorest 10 percent.
This week it said that its cash buffer has risen to around 6.4% thanks to sales of office blocks in London and Manchester.
Marks & Spencer said its share of the British clothing market had risen to around 11percentt, still below its peak, when it claimed more than 13percentt.
Alec Pillmoor, head of personal insolvency at accountancy firm Baker Tilly, said: "We are expecting the number of DROs to have drastically risen to around 4,000.
But this year's sales suggest that output, thanks in part to a rise in smallholder planting, may have risen to around 120m kg (though that figure may include smuggled imports).
As a result, reverse osmosis is preferred for most modern seawater-desalination (though rising energy and commodity prices mean the cost per cubic metre has now risen to around 75 cents).
