Pakistan has unveiled its 2024-25 economic survey, revealing a measurable improvement between key indicators, although challenges remain in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors. Here is an overview of its main protruding facts: {{PDF}} growth agriculture sector The agricultural sector demonstrated resilience during the 2010 financial year, recording growth of 0.56%, mainly driven by cattle. The share of the sector in GDP fell slightly to 23.54%, compared to 24.03%in the 201024 financial year. Significant crops decreased by 13.49%due to the reduction in the cultivation area and unfavorable weather conditions, considerably affecting cotton (-30.7%), wheat (-8.9%), sugar cane (-3.9%) (-15.4%) and rice (-1.4%). Cotton production was recorded at 7.08 million bullets, to 84.24 million tonnes of sugar cane, wheat of 28.98 million tonnes and rice at 9.72 million tonnes. Other crops increased by 4.78%, driven by robust performance in the potato (11.5%), onion (15.9%) and puree (4.7%). Cotton has lost momentum, reducing 19.03% compared to growth of 47.23% the previous year. The cattle sector, contributing 63.60% to agriculture and 14.97% to Pakistan GDP, increased by 4.72% during the 2010 financial year, against 4.38% the previous year. The forest sector recorded growth of 3.03%, maintaining a regular contribution of 2.31% to agriculture and 0.54% to GDP. The fishing sector increased by 1.42%, from 0.81% last year, with a sectoral part of 1.31% in agriculture and 0.31% in GDP. The growth and investment of real GDPs recorded growth of 2.68% during the 201025 financial year, supported by large stabilization based on the main macroeconomic indicators. The industrial sector posted growth of 4.77%dictated by manufacturing recovery, while the service sector increased by 2.91%, retaining its position as a larger GDP contributor with a share of 58.40%. GDP at current market prices increased to RS114 692 billion, reflecting an increase of 9.1% compared to the 105,143 billion rupees of the previous year. The investment / GDP ratio reached 13.8% against 13.1% during the 2010 financial year, while the savings / GDP ratio increased to 14.1% compared to 12.6% last year. Budget performance The budget deficit has narrowed to 6.5% of GDP compared to 7.4% last year. Revenue collection increased by 29% to 10.8 rumbox, tax revenue increasing by 38%. Current spending increased by 26% due to higher interest payments. The inflation of the monetary situation decreased sharply to a record level of 0.3% in April 2025, against 17.3% in April 2024. Average inflation of the IPC for July-April was 4.7%, marking a significant decrease of 26.0% in the same period last year. The State Bank has reduced policy rates from 450 points to 17.5% since July 2024. A large money supply increased by 13.7%. Revenue from the external per capita sector reached $ 1,824, against $ 1,662 in the previous year, showing an increase of 9.7% supported by improving economic activity and a stable exchange rate. The current account recorded a surplus of $ 1.2 billion (0.3% of GDP), while funds increased by 11% to 32 billion dollars. Foreign reserves reached $ 14.3 billion, covering 3.6 months of imports. The health and education of the Pakistan health sector have shown modest improvements in the 2010-20 financial year, infant mortality being reduced to 52 per 1,000 live births from 56 years last year, although national health expenses remained only 1.4% of GDP. The education sector has experienced literacy rates increase to 62.8%, while registration for primary schools reached 28.6 million children, but education expenses remained at 2.1% of GDP, below regional references. Technology and infrastructure The IT sector has become a positive point, exports increasing by 32% to 3.5 billion dollars and digital banking transactions increasing by 89% to Rs12.7 Billions, while large -band mobile penetration has reached 57% of the population. Transport infrastructure has expanded with road networks going to 284,772 km and the circulation of aviation passengers jumping 24%, although rural connectivity gaps persist. Demography and growth of the workforce population slowed slightly at 2.4%, urban residents now comprising 40.1%of the 241.5 million people in Pakistan, while working work has remained stagnant at 37.2%, with significant gender disparities.
"Our digital transformation accelerates, but human development needs corresponding investment," Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb told journalists when the investigation is launched. The installed electricity production capacity of the Pakistan energy sector increased to 46,605 MW during the 2010-25 financial year, up 1.6% against 45,888 MW last year, according to the economic survey. However, this increase deepened the burden of consumers, who pay Rs 2.5 to 2.8 billions per year in capacity payments to inactivity power plants producing no electricity. Debt and capital markets Pakistan public debt amounted to 67.8 rummage of rupees (74.1% of GDP) in March 2025, marking a drop of 2.3 percentage points compared to the debt ratio to GDP of 76.4% of last year. The interior debt represented 61% of the total at 41.4 Billions of rupees, while the external debt represented 26.4 rumors of rupees. The capital market has demonstrated robust growth with a market capitalization on the Pakistan stock exchange by increasing by 50% to 10.2 billions of rupees, while the Benchmark KSE-100 index won 78,000 points during the 20125 year. Manufacturing manufacturing and operating production has shown mixed results, the industrial sector displaying 4.77% growth caused by manufacturing recovery. Small scale manufacturing and slaughter have contributed to compensating for contractions in large -scale manufacturing (LSM). The automotive sector has strongly rebounded with production growth of 42%, while cement production decreased by 7.2%. The mining sector increased by 2.1%, coal production increasing by 12% to 10.4 million tonnes. However, mineral exports fell 9% to $ 682 million due to the world price fluctuations. Chromite production dropped by 18% while the production of salt in rock has increased by 5%. The mixed results become before Tuesday’s budgetary announcement, observers monitoring increases in health and education. The survey noted special challenges in maternal health care and registration for secondary schools, where rates continue to delay their regional peers despite progressive improvements.
