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The rupee against the dollar — rupees per US$, monthly
Every month since August 1947. The rupee has lost about 98.8% of its dollar value over that span, but almost none of it happened smoothly.
State Bank of Pakistan, bank floating average exchange rates. Rates before 1982 are the managed peg, so the flat stretches are policy, not market calm.
Is the rupee over- or under-valued? — effective exchange rate indices, 2010 = 100
The nominal effective rate (NEER) tracks the rupee against a trade-weighted basket. The real rate (REER) adjusts for inflation differences — above 100 means the rupee is dearer than the 2010 benchmark in real terms, which makes exports harder.
SBP, nominal and real effective exchange rate indices (base 2010), monthly from July 2001.
Inflation — consumer price index, % change on a year earlier
National, urban and rural CPI; the sensitive price indicator (a weekly basket of essentials) and the wholesale price index are available as extra series. The 2022–23 spike is the highest reading in the CPI series.
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics via SBP EasyData, CPI 2015-16 base, year-on-year.
Inflation by component — % change on a year earlier
Food, non-food and core (excluding food and energy), urban and rural. With urban and rural food both shown, the shaded band is the gap between them — usually rural above urban, and at the 2023 peak rural food prices were rising at over 50% a year.
PBS via SBP EasyData. CPI components by urban and rural, year-on-year, 2015-16 base. Core is non-food non-energy (NFNE).
The policy rate — per cent
SBP's headline rate, changed only when the bank decides to move it — so the line is a staircase, not a curve. The reverse repo series is the one that reaches back to 1956.
SBP, structure of interest rates. The policy (target) rate proper begins in May 2015; before that the reverse repo ceiling is the closest continuous equivalent.
What banks charge each other — KIBOR offer rates, per cent
The interbank curve, one line per tenor. When the short tenors rise above the long ones the curve has inverted — banks are pricing tighter money now than later.
SBP, KIBOR offer rates. Daily data thinned to month-end for legibility; the full daily series is in the SQL console.
What banks pay, and what they charge — per cent, on outstanding stock
The gap between the two is the banking spread — roughly, the industry's gross margin on intermediation.
SBP, weighted average lending and deposit rates on outstanding loans and deposits (including zero-markup, including interbank). Note SBP publishes 65 of the 145 series in this dataset with no values at all.
Foreign exchange reserves — million US$, and months of import cover
Reserves held by the State Bank, and how many months of goods imports they would pay for. Below three months is the conventional danger line.
SBP, gold and foreign exchange reserves, monthly from June 1948. Import cover uses a trailing 12-month average of goods imports.
Where the dollars come from, and where they go — the current account, US$
Every dollar Pakistan earns from the rest of the world on the left; every dollar it spends on the right. The boxes are drawn to scale, so when the right-hand side is wider the country ran a current-account deficit that year and had to borrow or draw down reserves to cover it. Use the Summary / Groups / Detail / Everything toggle to break the boxes down in place — each subdivides inside its own area, so the two sides stay comparable — or click any single box to open just that one (and its heading to close it). Goods go four levels deep, to individual commodities.
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SBP, monthly balance of payments summary on the BPM6 standard, summed to fiscal years (July–June). Inflows minus outflows equal SBP’s published current-account balance to the dollar; the build checks this. “Other transfers in” is secondary income other than workers’ remittances. Breakdowns: goods from SBP’s export receipts and import payments by commodity (through banks, so before the freight adjustment — the header shows both figures), services from the BPM6 services table, remittances from the country-wise table, income paid from repatriation of profits and dividends by sector. The commodity hierarchy is not published as such; it is recovered from the numbers (a group is the series its neighbours sum to in every year) and checked against the totals.
Where remittances come from — million US$, fiscal year
Money sent home by Pakistanis abroad — now worth more than goods exports.
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These series are hierarchical: U.A.E. already contains Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah, Other GCC contains Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar, and ten European Countries contains Belgium through Sweden. Adding every country series together overstates the total by 42%. This chart uses the partition that reconciles exactly to SBP's published figure.
SBP, country-wise workers' remittances, monthly since July 1972, summed to fiscal years (July–June).
The money supply — rupees billion
M1 is cash and current accounts; M2 adds time and savings deposits; M3 adds deposits held outside the banking system proper.
SBP, monetary aggregates (M3 monthly profile), June 2006 onward.
Bad loans — non-performing loans as % of gross advances
The banking system's infection ratio, quarterly.
SBP, segment-wise advances and non-performing loans. The series ends June 2025.
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