OTTAWA, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- The total cost of Canada's mission in Afghanistan will rise to more than 18.1 billion Canadian dollars (about 15.8 billion U.S. dollars) by 2011, an official said in a report Thursday.

    The cost amounts to about 1,500 Canadian dollars for every Canadian household. The mission has so far cost Canada up to an estimated 10.5 billion Canadian dollars, said Kevin Page, parliamentary budget officer, at a press conference in Ottawa.

    Page said the report is the first "comprehensive costing of its kind" for the Canadian mission in Afghanistan. It includes the cost for running military operations in Afghanistan, aid and reconstruction efforts, as well as long term costs of taking care of veterans.

    The report also lists out incremental costs that would not have been incurred except for the operation, such as equipment maintenance due to an increased operational tempo in war, reservists' pay, and more death and disability benefits for soldiers and their families.

    The Conservative government, which extended the mission by two years to 2011, had pegged the cost of the Afghanistan mission from2002 to 2008 at about 8 billion Canadian dollars.

    The report also indicated that the new figures about the costs of the Afghan mission could affect Ottawa's future budgets. "The actual incremental costs could exceed the Parliamentary appropriations," it said.

    In reacting to the report, Prime Minister Stephen Harper pledged transparency on the cost of the mission and restated that Canada will end its military commitment in the country in 2011.

    Canada's 2,500 soldiers are part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Ninety-seven Canadian troops have died in Afghanistan since they were first deployed there in 2002. (1 U.S. dollar = 1.1456 Canadian dollar)