{"id":16396,"date":"2025-09-23T16:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=16396"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:20:21","slug":"world-bank-report-poverty-in-pakistan-rises-to-25-3-after-7-increase-in-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=16396","title":{"rendered":"World Bank Report: Poverty in Pakistan Rises to 25.3% After 7% Increase in Three Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

The World Bank has released its latest report on poverty in Pakistan, highlighting alarming trends in the country\u2019s socio-economic situation. According to the report, between 60% and 80% of Pakistan\u2019s total population resides in rural areas, while 39% live in cities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The findings reveal that poverty in Pakistan has surged by 7% over the last three years. In 2022, the poverty rate stood at 18.3%, rising to 24.8% in 2023\/24 and further climbing to 25.3% in 2024\/25.<\/p>\n

The report also traces the long-term trend, noting that between 2001 and 2015, poverty declined annually by around 3%. From 2015 to 2018, the decline slowed to just 1% per year. However, after 2018\/19, no household survey was conducted. By 2022, the poverty rate began to rise sharply, with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 contributing to a significant spike in poverty levels.<\/p>\n

In terms of income sources, the report highlights that non-agricultural income played a greater role in reducing poverty compared to agricultural income. Around 57% of poverty reduction was driven by non-agriculture income, while only 18% was attributed to agriculture. Additionally, remittances and other income sources also contributed to lowering poverty.<\/p>\n

The World Bank report further underlines that between 2011 and 2021, overall income levels in Pakistan rose by only 2 to 3%. During this period, 85% of people in low-income sectors remained employed, while 95% of the workforce was engaged in informal sectors, reflecting structural weaknesses in the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The World Bank has released its latest report on poverty in Pakistan, highlighting alarming trends in the country\u2019s socio-economic situation. According to the report, between 60% and 80% of Pakistan\u2019s total population resides in rural areas, while 39% live in cities. The findings reveal that poverty in Pakistan has surged by 7% over the last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[8609,6248,8610,6889,4927,6890],"class_list":["post-16396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-agricultural-income","tag-economic-crisis","tag-non-agricultural-income","tag-pakistan-poverty","tag-remittances","tag-world-bank-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16398,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16396\/revisions\/16398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}