# PakDataHub vs Trading Economics for Pakistan data

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](https://pypsx.com).

See the [full catalog](https://pakdatahub.com/coverage) or [get a free key](https://pakdatahub.com/signup) to compare for yourself.

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Published 2026-09-23 - https://pakdatahub.com/blog/pakdata-vs-trading-economics