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Poverty in Pakistan has been recorded by the World Bank at 18.7-25.3% using the lower middle-income poverty rate of US$ 3.2 per day for the fiscal year 2024–25. [1] In September 2021, the government stated that 22% percent of its population lives below the national poverty line [ 2 ] set at Rs.
The Pakistan government spent over 1 trillion rupees (about $16.7 billion) on poverty alleviation programs during the past four years, reducing poverty from 35% in 2000–01 to 29.3% in 2013 and further to 17% in 2015. [56]
That month Pakistan also ended a four-year streak of outflows (totaling $1.4 billion) in Treasury Bills, earning $875 million. According to Bloomberg, Pakistan's stock became the "world’s best performer", increasing 73% in the past 12-months. Treasury Bill yields became some of Asia's highest, while foreign reserves rose to a two-year high. [73]
Pakistan's fiscal deficit will be significantly worse than projected this fiscal year, with the fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic pushing millions into unemployment and poverty ...
Each nation has its own threshold for absolute poverty line; in the United States, for example, the absolute poverty line was US$15.15 per day in 2010 (US$22,000 per year for a family of four), [22] while in India it was US$1.0 per day [23] and in China the absolute poverty line was US$0.55 per day, each on PPP basis in 2010. [24]
As of 2008, over 17% of the total population was found abjectly living below the poverty line [3] while the unemployment rate, as of 2010, numbered up to an unprecedented 15%. [4] According to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), 24.3% lived below the national poverty line in 2015. [5]
The inflation rate in Pakistan has averaged 7.99 percent from 1957 until 2015, reaching an all-time high of 37.81 percent in December 1973 and a record low of -10.32 percent in February 1959. Pakistan suffered its only economic decline in GDP between 1951 and 1952. [3]
As with the terms "Asian American" or "South Asian American," the term "Pakistani American" is an umbrella term applying to a variety of views, values, lifestyles, and appearances. Although Pakistani Americans retain a strong ethnic identity, they are known to assimilate into American culture while at the same time keeping the culture of their ...