Workshop

Pakistan GDP Breakdown Workshop

How Pakistan’s economy is structured, and how fast it has grown. Every figure below is a share or a growth rate — this page carries no GDP level, and says so explicitly where that matters.

GDP composition by sector

Value added by agriculture, industry and services, each as a share of GDP.

These three shares total about 94% — not 100%.

The World Bank’s value-added measure excludes net taxes on products (taxes such as GST and import duties, less subsidies). That excluded portion is roughly 6% of GDP in 2025, which is why the stack stops short of the 100% line. The shares are shown exactly as reported and are not rescaled to sum to 100, because doing so would present three sectors as a complete breakdown of the economy when they are not.

How to read it:a rising band means that sector’s value added grew faster than the rest of the economy, not that the sector grew in absolute terms. Shares move relative to one another, so one band can rise purely because another fell.

Source: World Bank (NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS / NV.IND.TOTL.ZS / NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS) · % of GDP, annual · 1996–2025

Annual real GDP growth

Year-on-year change in real (inflation-adjusted) GDP.

3.7%+0.6 pp vs 2024latest · 2025

This is a rate, not a size. A bar shows how much the economy grew that year, not how large it is. Two countries can show the same growth rate at very different economic sizes.

Source: World Bank (NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG) · annual % change, real · available 1961–2025 · charted 2006–2025 (20 years)

Quarterly real GVA growth

Year-on-year change in real gross value added, by fiscal quarter.

Not the same measure as the annual series above.This is gross value added (output less intermediate consumption, before net taxes on products), reported by Pakistan’s fiscal quarter — FY26 runs July 2025 to June 2026. The annual series is GDP on a calendar-year basis. They answer related questions but are not interchangeable, so they are kept in separate charts and never plotted on one axis.

Source: SBP / PBS · real GVA, YoY %, fiscal quarters · available Q1 FY17–Q4 FY26 · charted Q1 FY22–Q4 FY26 (20 quarters)

Peer comparison

Annual real GDP growth, same indicator and same periods for every country shown.

Why these can share one scale: all three bars are the same World Bank indicator (annual % change in real GDP) over the same years, so they are directly comparable. A missing year for a country is drawn as a gap, never as a zero bar.

Source: World Bank (NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG) · annual % change, real · 2014–2025 · countries shown: PAK, IND, BGD

What this workshop cannot show

Gaps in the underlying sources, stated plainly rather than filled in.

No nominal or real GDP levels: Every GDP figure here is a growth RATE or a SHARE. The audited sources carry no nominal GDP (in rupees or dollars) and no real GDP level, so questions like “how large is the economy?” cannot be answered from this page.
No expenditure components: Consumption, investment, government spending and net exports are not fetched by any current data source. The sector shares below are production-side value added, which is a different decomposition — they are not expenditure components.
No per-sector growth rates: Only each sector's share of GDP is available, not how fast that sector itself grew. A rising share can reflect a sector growing faster than the rest of the economy, or the rest of the economy shrinking; the share alone cannot distinguish them.
No contribution-to-growth decomposition: Splitting GDP growth into “agriculture contributed X points” requires sector levels, which are not available. Value-added shares cannot be converted into growth contributions without them, so no such figure is shown.

For the series this page does cover in more depth, see Pakistan GDP Growth and GDP Composition by Sector.

Developed by Farzam Arif