Pakistan’s Per Capita Income Rises in FY25
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Pakistan’s per capita income in US dollars has surged to $1,824 in the outgoing fiscal year 2024-25 (FY25), up by 8.5 percent from $1,680 in FY24), according to the Economic Survey 2024-25.
Net primary income witnessed a sharp rebound, posting a growth of 33.4 percent during FY 2025. This increase is attributed to increased workers’ remittances, driven by improved employment prospects in key corridors such as the Gulf, the United States, and the European Union. Rising returns on foreign investments also contributed to this gain.
The surge in net primary income reflects the rise of external earnings in national income, supporting a more balanced growth alongside domestic stabilization efforts. The rise in national income has increased, as evident by the GDP per capita increase in both USD and PKR terms.
This growth is reflected as a result of the increase in GDP at current market prices, which increased by 9.1 percent. The size of the economy reached Rs. 114,691.8 billion, up from Rs. 105,142.7 billion last year.
Gross National Income (GNI), which adds net primary income to GDP, witnessed a trend similar to GDP.
GDP growth reported a moderatte increase with a slight bump from growth in the agriculture which was recorded at 0.56 percent for the outgoing fiscal year.
Reference Link:- https://propakistani.pk/2025/06/09/pakistans-per-capita-income-rises-in-fy25/
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
