Overview
- Pakistan’s National Accounts Committee, which met Wednesday, reported Q3 growth of 3.99% and approved provisional full‑year FY2025‑26 growth of 3.70%.
- The committee raised earlier estimates, lifting Q1 growth to 3.92% and Q2 to 4.05%, with Pakistan Bureau of Statistics data underpinning the revisions.
- Industry in Q3 grew 4.65% on a 9.53% jump in large‑scale manufacturing, while electricity, gas and water contracted 13.53% and mining fell 2.55%.
- Services expanded 4.18% and agriculture rose 3.01% in Q3, with gains across trade, transport, information and communication, livestock and other crop categories.
- The economy’s size reached $452.1 billion and per‑capita income $1,901, and the 3.7% provisional growth missed the 4.2% goal but topped IMF, ADB and World Bank forecasts within the State Bank’s range.