Pakistan’s mobile phone imports surge 31.4% to $1.139bn in first seven months of FY2025–26

Pakistan imported mobile phones $1.139 billion in the first seven month (July-January) of current fiscal year 2025-26 compared to $867.685 million during the same period of last year, registering a growth of over 31.36 percent growth.

Official data revealed that in terms of rupees, the total value of mobile phone imports stood at Rs 321.137 billion during July-January 2025-26 compared to Rs 241.330 billion, registering 33.07 percent growth.

On a Month-on-Month (MoM) basis, Pakistan’s mobile phone imports saw a 12.60 percent growth, totaling $179.380 million in January 2026, compared to $159.304 million in December 2025. Year on year mobile imports witnessed a 33.62 percent growth when compared to $134.243 million in January 2025.

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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.

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The local manufacturing/ assembling plants manufactured/ assembled 30.21 million mobile handsets during the calendar year (January-December) 2025 compared to 2.37 million imported commercially.

Official data revealed that 2.61 million mobile handsets were manufactured/ assembled in December 2025 against 0.33 million imported commercially.
The local manufacturing/ assembling plants manufactured/ assembled 30.21 million mobile handsets included 15.64 million smart phones and 14.57 million 2G phones.

Besides, as per the PTA data, 71 per cent of mobile devices are smartphones, and 29 per cent are 2G on the Pakistan network.
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