AFGHANISTAN BY THE NUMBERS

$4 trillion to $6 trillion: Final U.S. cost for the Afghan war, including long-term costs such as funding for veterans, estimated in 2013 by Harvard University

$11.3 billion: Official Canadian government incremental cost for Afghan mission 2001 to 2011. Incremental costs are those additional costs for personnel and equipment. They do not include salaries as those would have been paid anyway.

$18.1 billion: Cost of Canada’s Afghan mission 2001 to 2011 estimated by former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page in 2008. Costs are estimates because government departments refused to provide information to Page.

$22 billion: Cost of Canada’s Afghan mission, estimated in a 2008 study produced by defence analyst David Perry

$1.9 billion: Canadian government aid commitment to Afghanistan, 2001-11

$330 million: Canadian government commitment to Afghan national security forces, 2015-17

$227 million: Amount pledged by Canada over three years on post-2014 development assistance to Afghanistan

$17.5 million: The cost to renovate the building that now houses Canada’s Chancery in Kabul

$4.5 million: Annual property operating costs for that embassy

$1 million: Cost of a U.S. MRAP (armoured vehicle)

$12,000: Cost to destroy a U.S. MRAP in Afghanistan to be sold for scrap

$250,000: Average cost of a full-time expatriate consultant working in Afghanistan

$1,000: Annual salary of an Afghan government employee