# Where to get Pakistan economic & financial data (2026)

If you need Pakistan's economic or financial data - inflation, exchange rates, interest
rates, mutual funds, trade, payments - there are more options than there used to be, and
they're good at different things. Here's an honest map of the landscape and how to choose.

## The official sources (free, authoritative, hard to use)

- **State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)** and its open-data portal, **Pakistan Bureau of Statistics
  (PBS)**, **PTA** (telecom) and **MUFAP** (mutual funds) publish the primary data. It's free
  and authoritative - but it's spread across a dozen sites, buried in PDFs and Excel files,
  inconsistent between releases, and has no single API. Great if you're doing a one-off pull
  and don't mind the cleanup. Painful to build a product on.
- **World Bank, IMF, FRED (St. Louis Fed)** re-publish a handful of Pakistan headline series
  (annual GDP, CPI, a few more). Clean and easy, but shallow - you get the top-line number,
  not CPI by city, KIBOR by tenor, Raast volumes or fund NAVs.

## Global aggregators

- **Trading Economics** and similar global platforms cover ~200 countries. Handy if you want
  one dashboard for the world, but Pakistan is one country among many - the depth stops at
  headline macro, and the API is a paid subscription. You won't find Pakistan-specific
  datasets like MUFAP fund analytics, SPI prices by city, or SBP payment-systems detail.

## Pakistan-specialist options

- **Capital Stake** - an established, sales-led provider and PSX feed vendor with equities,
  mutual funds and economic datasets. Access is arranged through their team.
- **FinHisaab** - consumer-facing calculators and personal-finance tools for Pakistan (an
  inflation calculator and the like), rather than a developer data API.
- **PakDataHub** - a self-serve REST API for the whole economy: 16,964 official series from
  1947 to today, plus mutual funds, debt securities and alternate data (Raast, POS, cards,
  telecom, SME). Public pricing, a free tier, a key in minutes.

## Stocks (PSX equities)

For **Pakistan Stock Exchange** equities, indices and company data, use a stock-focused
provider - **[pypsx.com](https://pypsx.com)** is the developer-first option. PakDataHub
deliberately doesn't cover individual equities; it covers the macro and financial economy
around them.

## How to choose

- **One-off analysis, don't mind cleanup** -> the official portals (SBP/PBS), or World
  Bank/FRED for headline series.
- **A worldwide dashboard** -> a global aggregator.
- **PSX stocks** -> [pypsx.com](https://pypsx.com).
- **A Pakistan app or model that needs clean, complete data via API, today** -> **PakDataHub**.
  It's the only self-serve API that covers Pakistan's economy end to end, cleaned and
  cross-validated, with transparent pricing and no sales call.

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Published 2026-09-23 - https://pakdatahub.com/blog/best-pakistan-economic-data-sources