Pakistan monetary and external statistics, SBP series

Name: Pakistan monetary and external statistics, SBP series
Creator: Hiba Sameen
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The macro time-series panel: every observation of every SBP series held here.

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Source: State Bank of Pakistan, EasyData API (easydata.sbp.org.pk)
Rows in this release: 306,875
Units: Vary by field or series; see definitions below.
Catalogue generated: 2026-09-13

Definitions and limitations

One row per series × date. UNITS ARE PER-SERIES — join to sbp_series_catalog and read `unit` before summing anything, because this table mixes rupees, dollars, percentages and index levels in one `value` column. value IS NULL where SBP suppressed or has not published the figure and `status` says which ('Normal', 'Missing value', …) — a NULL is not a zero. Frequencies are mixed, so filter on the catalogue's `frequency` before resampling or averaging across series. DOUBLE-COUNTING TRAP (country-wise remittances, TS_GP_BOP_WR_M): the country series are hierarchical, so summing them all overstates the total by ~42% (FY2024-25: 54,384 vs the published 38,299 Mn USD). 'U.A.E.' already contains Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and 'Other four U.A.E.'s States'; 'Other GCC Countries excluding Saudi Arabia & U.A.E.' already contains Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar; 'ten European Countries' already contains Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherland, Spain and Sweden — Norway and Switzerland are reported separately. The partition that reconciles exactly to the published total is: Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., U.K., U.S.A., Other GCC, ten European Countries, Norway, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, South Africa, South Korea, Other Countries. The same shape applies to province-wise banking (TS_GP_BAM_ADVDEP_HY), where 'all Pakistan' is the total of the regional series.

Pakistan monetary and external statistics, SBP series — data dictionary
Field	Type	Definition
series_key	VARCHAR	joins to sbp_series_catalog.series_key
dataset_code	VARCHAR	EasyData dataset code, denormalised for cheap filtering
obs_date	DATE	observation date — END of the period (see catalogue notes)
value	DOUBLE	the observation; unit depends on the series
status	VARCHAR	SBP observation status; anything but 'Normal' needs care
comment	VARCHAR	SBP status comment, usually empty

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