Friday, January 21, 2011

State of Pakistan Economy (Data from Economic Survey 2009-10)



Pakistan Economy:
GDP: $161 bn
GNP: $167.6 bn
Population: 166 million
Per Capita Income: $1006

Sectoral share in GDP:
Agriculture: 21.5%
Industry: 25.2%
Service sector: 53.3%

Real Growth Rates:
Agriculture: 2.0
Industry: 4.9
Service sector: 4.6 (1.6 last year)
GDP: 4.1 (1.2 last year)

Unemployment:
Unemployment rate: 5.5% (5.2% last year)
Urban unemployment: 7.1% (6.3% last year)

Population:
- Pakistan is world's sixth most populous country
- Annual Growth rate = 2.05 % ( will become fourth most populous in 2050 after India, China, United States)

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Benazir Income Support Program (BISP):
Total Budget = Rs. 70 billion
Target = 5.5 million poor people (1000 month each)

War on Terror: (2002-2010)
Total incidents = 8141
Total deaths = 8875

Education: 
Public sector spendings: 2.1% of GDP
Literacy rate = 57%

Poverty (World):
- 40% poorest people have 5% of total global income
- 20% richest people have 75% of total global income
- 963 million people in the world are hungry at this moment.

2 comments:

  1. its good knowledge for us... friends we have to do something for our Pakistan.

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  2. Thanks dear,
    And yes, this is the time when we are need to focus on some sustainable development projects. Pakistan is 25th largest economy of the world but still there are more than 65million people who are living below the poverty line.

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