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IndicatorPAKPakistanMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.47rank #106
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile26.3rank #167
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.18rank #112
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.12rank #135
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.56rank #96
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile39.7rank #144
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.47rank #106
Military spending% GDP2.7%rank #30
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.19rank #104
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile30.6rank #196
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile42.4rank #163
Rule of Law0-100 percentile39.5rank #167
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.26rank #117
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.3rank #101
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.18rank #108
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile36.4rank #163
Women in parliament% seats17%rank #127
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.52rank #125
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment36.2%rank #43
Agriculture value added% GDP23%rank #21
Annual working hours per workerhours2,471.1rank #5
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker26,468.7rank #146
Current account balance% GDP-0.11%rank #37
Employment-to-population ratio%49.6%rank #142
External debt stocks% GNI35.6%rank #37
FDI net inflows% GDP0.45%rank #77
GDPcurrent US$407.31Brank #40
GDP growth%3.7%rank #82
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$1,595.9rank #159
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $5,617.3rank #144
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $5,501.1rank #149
Government expenditure% GDP12.8%rank #78
Gross capital formation% GDP14.3%rank #118
Gross savings% GDP15.2%rank #61
High-technology exports% manuf. exports2.4%rank #101
Human capital indexindex1.8rank #127
Industry value added% GDP20.1%rank #112
Inflation%3.5%rank #98
Labour force participation rate%52.4%rank #145
Personal remittances received% GDP9.9%rank #13
R&D expenditure% GDP0.16%rank #70
Researchers in R&Dper million473.7rank #61
Trade openness% GDP27.2%rank #135
Unemployment% labor force5.4%rank #99
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%5.2%rank #94
Vulnerable employment% employment55.5%rank #136
Youth unemployment% ages 15-249.6%rank #68
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-249.6%rank #66
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop90.7%rank #113
Basic sanitation access% pop71.9%rank #128
Child mortalityper 1005.6rank #134
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal2,513.8rank #149
DTP3 immunization coverage%87%rank #13
Health spending% GDP2.5%rank #187
Infant mortalityper 1k births48.2rank #137
Life expectancyyears67.8rank #169
Maternal mortalityper 100k155rank #73
Measles immunization% children86%rank #14
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%86%rank #14
Physiciansper 1k1.2rank #80
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m358.4rank #194
Road traffic deathsper 100k13rank #54
Smoking prevalence% adults17.9%rank #59
Suicide mortality rateper 100k5.6rank #68
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k266rank #129
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births56rank #173
Undernourishment% pop16.5%rank #52
Education
Adult literacy%58.9%rank #38
Education spending% GDP1.9%rank #105
Expected years of schoolingyears7.9rank #187
Mean years of schoolingyears4.3rank #175
Primary completion rate% relevant age74.1%rank #98
Primary enrollment% gross83.7%rank #124
Secondary enrollment% gross48.3%rank #105
Tertiary enrollment% gross10.9%rank #86
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00027.4rank #41
Fertility ratebirths/woman3.5rank #43
Median age of populationyears20.3rank #175
Net migration rateper 1,000-6.5rank #190
Populationpeople255.22Mrank #5
Population growth%1.6%rank #67
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years71.3rank #174
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands371,863.8rank #4
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age70.2rank #44
Urban population%39.5%rank #163
Climate
CO₂ emissionst179.8Mrank #31
CO₂ per capitat0.72rank #160
Electricity access% pop95.7%rank #20
Electricity from coal% generation16.3%rank #31
Electricity from hydro% generation23.3%rank #31
Electricity from solar% generation20.7%rank #8
Electricity from wind% generation2.5%rank #58
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita518.3rank #122
Forest area% land4.7%rank #179
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita2.3rank #40
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh310.2rank #42
Renewable electricity%42.7%rank #41
Renewable energy share%41.6%rank #54
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e562rank #176
Society
Asylum seekerspeople65,066rank #152
Extreme poverty% pop23%rank #22
Female labor participation%24%rank #169
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 1001.5rank #127
Gender Development Indexratio0.84rank #102
Gender Inequality Index0-10.54rank #128
Gini indexindex33.5rank #5
Homicide rateper 100k4.3rank #51
Human Development Index0-10.54rank #135
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.36rank #118
Internally displaced personspeople3,439rank #2
Internet users% pop57.3%rank #138
Life satisfaction0-104.9rank #101
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.53rank #105
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #136
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.07rank #105
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.36rank #147
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.79rank #173
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people1.16Mrank #6
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people90,497rank #149
Youth NEET rate%34.5%rank #165
Risk
Battle-related deaths (state-based)deaths/year3,096rank #35
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths4,897rank #46
Hazard & exposure0-108.4rank #71
Human hazard & exposure0-109.2rank #69
INFORM risk score0-106.6rank #53
Lack of coping capacity0-105.5rank #46
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-105.1rank #46
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-105.9rank #38
Natural hazard & exposure0-107.4rank #58
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year3,331rank #43
Socio-economic vulnerability0-105.9rank #56
Vulnerability0-106.1rank #49
Vulnerable groups0-106.2rank #56
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