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Pakistan

Headline economic indicators for Pakistan, with the most recent official readings.

Prices

Prices — Pakistan
Indicator Value Change
Inflation rate · 3.5% -9.09 (-71.9%)
Consumer price index · 400.5 +13.71 (+3.5%)
GDP deflator inflation · 4.3% -17.76 (-80.6%)

GDP

GDP — Pakistan
Indicator Value Change
GDP growth rate · 3.7% +0.62 (+20.0%)
GDP per capita · 1,595.91 +116.43 (+7.9%)
GDP per capita, long-run history · 5,532 +67.95 (+1.2%)
GDP · 407,307,214,476.22 +35,560,126,725 (+9.6%)
GDP, PPP · 1,677,664,333,899 +103,918,588,665 (+6.6%)
GDP per capita, PPP · 6,573 +310.23 (+5.0%)
GDP per capita growth · 2.1% +0.56 (+36.2%)
GNI per capita · 1,500 +70.00 (+4.9%)
Agriculture to GDP · 23.0% -0.71 (-3.0%)
Industry to GDP · 20.1% -0.22 (-1.1%)
Manufacturing to GDP · 13.0% -0.13 (-1.0%)
Services to GDP · 50.9% +0.22 (+0.4%)
Household consumption to GDP · 83.6% -1.11 (-1.3%)
Gross capital formation to GDP · 14.3% +1.08 (+8.2%)
Gross savings to GDP · 15.2% +1.40 (+10.1%)

Labour

Labour — Pakistan
Indicator Value Change
Unemployment rate · 5.4% -0.07 (-1.3%)
Labour force participation rate · 52.3% +0.03 (+0.1%)
Female labour force participation rate · 24.0% +0.06 (+0.2%)
Youth unemployment rate · 9.6% +0.07 (+0.8%)
Employment to population ratio · 49.5% +0.06 (+0.1%)
Employment in agriculture · 36.2% -0.31 (-0.9%)
Employment in industry · 25.3% +0.07 (+0.3%)
Employment in services · 38.5% +0.24 (+0.6%)

Money

Money — Pakistan
Indicator Value Change
Real interest rate · -1.5% -2.19 (-296.3%)
Broad money to GDP · 40.9% +2.67 (+7.0%)
Private sector credit to GDP · 10.7% -0.73 (-6.4%)
Lending rate · 8.7% -2.09 (-19.4%)
Bank deposit rate · 5.8% -1.72 (-23.1%)
Stock market capitalization to GDP · 17.3% +3.25 (+23.2%)
Bank nonperforming loans · 5.4% -0.39 (-6.8%)
Official exchange rate · 281.14 +2.56 (+0.9%)

Trade

Trade — Pakistan
Indicator Value Change
Current account to GDP · -0.1% -0.23 (-188.1%)
Exports to GDP · 10.0% -0.40 (-3.9%)
Imports to GDP · 17.2% +0.03 (+0.2%)
Trade to GDP · 27.2% -0.37 (-1.3%)
Exports of goods and services · 40,670,467,311.91 +2,062,661,866 (+5.3%)
Imports of goods and services · 70,090,772,303.09 +6,225,262,860 (+9.7%)
Trade balance, goods and services (annual) · -34,034,083,800 -7,344,266,842 (-27.5%)
Current account balance (annual) · -447,997,400 -912,285,030 (-196.5%)
Foreign direct investment to GDP · 0.5% -0.26 (-36.6%)
Remittances received to GDP · 9.9% +0.55 (+5.8%)
Total reserves, including gold · 26,455,819,675.73 +8,048,073,815 (+43.7%)
Reserves in months of imports · 3.8 +0.91 (+32.0%)
External debt to GNI · 35.6% -3.82 (-9.7%)

Government

Government — Pakistan
Indicator Value Change
Government debt to GDP · 55.0% -24.05 (-30.4%)
Government expense to GDP · 12.8% -6.22 (-32.7%)
Government consumption to GDP · 9.3% +0.46 (+5.2%)
Education spending to GDP · 1.9% -0.03 (-1.3%)
Health spending to GDP · 2.5% -0.38 (-13.2%)

Demography

Demography — Pakistan
Indicator Value Change
Population · 255,219,554 +3,950,390 (+1.6%)
Population, long-run history · 238,413 +4,471 (+1.9%)
Population growth · 1.6% +0.05 (+3.3%)
Life expectancy · 67.8 +0.15 (+0.2%)
Fertility rate · 3.55 -0.06 (-1.6%)
Birth rate · 27.4 -0.39 (-1.4%)
Death rate · 6.4 -0.02 (-0.3%)
Urban population share · 39.5% +0.35 (+0.9%)
Population aged 65 and over · 4.4% +0.08 (+1.9%)
Under-five mortality rate · 56.0 -1.80 (-3.1%)
Population density · 326.0 +4.88 (+1.5%)
Net migration · -1,235,336 +165,837 (+11.8%)
Gini index · 33.5 +3.90 (+13.2%)

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

All data sources

Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

No separate list is published for Pakistan; the database as a whole is cited above.

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Comparable readings from neighbouring economies.