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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.
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]
8 August – Arshad Nadeem clinches Pakistan's first Olympic track and field medal after winning gold at the men's javelin throw at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. [ 101 ] 9 August – Three soldiers and four militants are killed in attacks on three army outposts in the Tirah Valley , Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, that are claimed by the Gul Bahadur ...
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 ...
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]
Since 2007, Aspirnaut has brought 362 mostly rural students in need from 34 states to do summer research at Vanderbilt and reached another 3,000-plus students in Arkansas through science and ...
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Pakistan's largest food crop is wheat. In 2017, Pakistan produced 26,674,000 tonnes of wheat, almost equal to all of Africa (27.1 million tonnes) and more than all of South America (25.9 million tonnes), according to the FAOSTAT. [70] In the market year of 2018/19, Pakistan exported a record 4.5 million tonnes of rice. [71]