Trading Economics is a well-known global data platform — around 200 countries and millions of indicators in one place. PakDataHub does one country, in depth. If your work is about Pakistan, that difference matters.
The short version
- Trading Economics is the right tool when you want one dashboard for the whole world and headline macro is enough.
- PakDataHub is the right tool when you're building something Pakistan-specific and need depth, local datasets and a self-serve API.
Where PakDataHub goes deeper
A global aggregator covers the top-line series for every country — GDP, CPI, policy rate. PakDataHub covers those and the data that only exists at the country level:
- Mutual funds — 567 funds with NAVs back to 1996, returns, TER, holdings and computed analytics (CAGR, volatility, drawdown), plus AMC profiles.
- Digital payments — Raast (P2P/P2M/bulk), POS, cards, ATMs, PRISM, per-channel retail.
- Prices by city — weekly SPI retail prices for ~30 items across 17 cities.
- Rates in detail — KIBOR by tenor, the full PKRV/PKISRV yield curves, T-Bill/PIB/Sukuk auction cut-offs.
- Telecom, SME finance, debt securities — and more.
Plus history that goes deep: USD/PKR from 1947, fund NAVs from 1996.
Access & pricing
- Self-serve: PakDataHub gives you a key in minutes with public pricing and a free tier; you don't schedule a call or negotiate a subscription to start.
- Formats: clean JSON or CSV per series, with server-side transforms (YoY, index, % change).
- Reproducible: every number traces to an official Pakistani release, dated and sourced.
When to pick which
- Trading Economics — a global view across many countries in one place.
- PakDataHub — the natural choice when Pakistan is the point: deeper coverage, local datasets, self-serve, from 1947 to today.
- PSX stocks — for equities, use pypsx.com.
See the full catalog or get a free key to compare for yourself.