Pakistan’s GDP grows 3.71% in Q1 FY2026, says Ahsan Iqbal
- Growth comes despite 2025 flood shock, says Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives
Pakistan posted a gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 3.71% during the first quarter of FY2026, said Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, Ahsan Iqbal, on Tuesday.
“This is 2.15% more than the corresponding number of Q1 2024-25,” said the federal minister in a social media post.
“This defines a qualitative change in the trajectory of GDP compared to 2024-25…. More encouraging is that it is coming from Industrial growth, which in 2025-26 Q1 is 9.38%, which in Q1 of 2024-25 was 0.12%.
“It should not be ignored that this growth is coming despite the 2025 flood shock and absorption of all fiscal tightening, energy subsidy withdrawal, and food inflation,” he added.
Pakistan posted GDP growth of 3.04% during FY2025, estimates released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) in October showed. The growth was higher than the 2.68% estimated by the National Accounts Committee (NAC) during the previous meeting.
According to NAC, the overall size of the economy in FY2025 stood at Rs113.7 trillion, i.e. $407.2 billion, as compared to Rs105.2 trillion, i.e. $371.8 billion, in the previous year.
Further, per capita income in Rupees is 506,188 or $1,812, the NAC data showed.
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