Pakistan’s mobile phone imports surge 40.5% to $801mn in first five months of FY2025–26

Pakistan imported mobile phones $801.139 million in the first five months (July-November) of current fiscal year 2025-26 compared to $570.184 million during the same period of last year, registering a growth of over 40.51 percent growth.

Official data revealed that in terms of rupees, the total value of mobile phone imports stood at Rs 226.133 billion during July-November 2025 compared to Rs 158.518 billion, registering 42.65 percent growth.

On a Month-on-Month (MoM) basis, Pakistan’s mobile phone imports saw a 8.30 percent growth, totaling $156.565 million in November 2025, compared to $1444.563 million in October 2025. Year on year mobile imports witnessed a negative growth of 4.81 percent when compared to $149.378 million in November 2024.

Pakistan imported mobile phones worth $1.494 billion in the last fiscal year 2024-25, registering a fall of 21.31 per cent compared to $1.898 billion during the previous year, 2023-24.

In terms of Pakistani rupees, the total value of mobile phone imports stood at Rs 417.351 billion during fiscal year 2024-25. This represents a 22.09 percent decline when compared to Rs535.690 billion in the same period of 2023-24.

Overall telecom imports into Pakistan stood at $2.099 billion during fiscal year 2024-25, reflecting a negative growth of 11.30 percent when compared to $2.366 billion during the same period of 2023-24.

The local manufacturing/ assembling plants manufactured/ assembled 25.11 million mobile handsets during the first ten months (January-October) of the calendar year 2025 compared to 1.7 million imported commercially.

Official data revealed that 2.33 million mobile handsets were manufactured/ assembled in October 2025 against 0.2 million imported commercially.
The local manufacturing/ assembling plants manufactured/ assembled 25.11 million mobile handsets included 13.2 million smart phones and 11.9 million 2G phones.
Besides, as per the PTA data, 70 per cent of mobile devices are smartphones, and 30 per cent are 2G on the Pakistan network.