National Well-Being Observatory
The state of Pakistan
Every reading below is a real, sourced figure as of 21 July 2026. Population 241.5 million. Click any number to interrogate its source, evidence grade and vintage.
Snapshot v2026.07
31 indicators · 8 sources
Economy & markets
Macro readings
Fast-moving, official (Grade A). Verified July 2026.
Twenty-five years
The Time Machine
Drag through history, or press play. A child born in 2000 faced very different odds.
The Time Machine · drag through history
World Bank / UN long-run series · values between observation years are interpolated for the slider.
Headline CPI · year-on-year
The one genuine 12-month series in the snapshot — most national indicators are monthly, annual or survey-based, and are shown with their own vintage rather than a fabricated weekly trend.
Cost of living · SPI basket
What changed on the shelf
Wheat flour up 71.8% in a year, while sugar and pulses fell over 21%. Weekly Sensitive Price Indicator, national average.
People & families
Human development & child well-being
Survey-based indicators — freshness dials show which readings are aging.
Comparison
Pakistan in its neighbourhood
per 1,000 · PK ranks 4/4
years · PK ranks 4/4
% · PK ranks 4/4
% · PK ranks 4/4
US$ · PK ranks 4/4
World Bank, latest comparable year (~2023–24). Pakistan trails all three neighbours on every human-development measure shown.
Trajectory
Distance to 2030
SDG 3.2
56 → 25
off pace
SDG 3.1
186 → 70
off pace
SDG 2.2
40.2% → 20%
off pace
SDG 4.1
35% → 0%
off pace
SDG 7.1
95.7% → 100%
off pace
SDG 6.1
45% → 100%
off pace
Targets are the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals; “on pace” means Pakistan has covered at least the share of the 2015→2030 distance the calendar has.
Institutions & safety
Safety & security
Independent trackers, shown as a range where sources disagree — never false precision.
Public finance
Budget & defense
Official allocation vs. SIPRI's independent estimate, where one exists.
Debt servicing alone (₨8.05tn) is larger than defense and development spending combined (₨4tn) — the single starkest fact in Pakistan's fiscal position.
Governance
Election administration
Neutral, procedural facts — this dashboard does not adjudicate rigging claims.
This panel reports neutral, procedural facts about how elections are administered — turnout, formal complaint counts, and what independent observer missions themselves documented. It does not characterize or adjudicate contested claims about whether an election was 'rigged'; that determination belongs to courts and election tribunals, not this dashboard.
60.6 million votes cast of 128.6 million registered voters — down from 52.1% in 2018.
113 National Assembly + 236 provincial assembly seats challenged. Two years on, 66% (246) have been decided by tribunals — of those, 242 were dismissed and only 4 accepted (all in Balochistan, resulting in ordered repolling at select stations). 34% remain pending.
The EU's 2024 mission report has not been made public (a 2018 EU mission did publish a detailed public report) — reporting states EU citizens' freedom-of-information requests were refused. The Commonwealth Observer Group's final report, released Sep 2025, commended ECP efforts on inclusion (narrowing the voter-registration gender gap from 12% to 7.7%) while noting unspecified 'areas for improvement.'
700,000+ security personnel deployed. A new Election Management System replaced the 2018 Result Transmission System that had crashed on election night.
People & families
Gender-based violence
Aggregate trends only — never individual case detail.
These are reported/registered cases only — not a measure of true incidence. Independent estimates suggest roughly 70–95% of gender-based violence and child sexual abuse in Pakistan goes unreported, so these figures are best read as a floor, not a ceiling. Provincial comparisons largely reflect uneven reporting infrastructure (specialized women's police stations, media reach) rather than true differences in risk. This dashboard shows only aggregate national trends — never individual case detail.
Up ~25% vs. the prior 11-month period — includes 3,815 rape and 983 gang-rape cases. ~60% of incidents occur inside the home.
+8% vs 2024's 3,364. Girls 53%, boys 47%. 82% of reported cases were registered with police. Methodology is media-monitoring based (81 newspapers) — the tracker's own stated floor on true incidence, not a full count.
Independent-tracker estimate. Specialized GBV courts in some Sindh districts reportedly reach ~17% (up from ~5% in 2020) — evidence that dedicated judicial infrastructure meaningfully improves outcomes where it exists.
Infrastructure, environment & future capability