The State Bank's foreign-exchange reserves are the most-watched number in Pakistan's economy. PakDataHub carries them monthly since June 1948, straight from SBP.
The recent story
SBP reserves (reserves.total_sbp_reserves, US$ million, month-end):
| Month | SBP reserves |
|---|---|
| Aug 2021 | 20,308 (record high) |
| Jun 2022 | 10,064 |
| Dec 2022 | 5,702 |
| Jan 2023 | 3,204 (the crisis low) |
| Dec 2023 | 8,331 |
| Dec 2024 | 11,860 |
| Dec 2025 | 16,187 |
| Jun 2026 | 18,500 |
Commercial banks held another US$2.5bn (reserves.total_banks_reserves) in June 2026. For the long view, the series starts at US$150 million in June 1948.
Get it
curl -H "X-API-Key: pk_live_xxx" \
"https://api.pakdatahub.com/v1/series/reserves.total_sbp_reserves?from=2021-01-01&sort=asc"
Month-on-month change, computed server-side:
curl -H "X-API-Key: pk_live_xxx" \
"https://api.pakdatahub.com/v1/series/reserves.total_sbp_reserves?transform=mom&limit=12"
Components
| Id | What |
|---|---|
reserves.total_sbp_reserves |
SBP reserves |
reserves.total_banks_reserves |
Banks' reserves |
reserves.gold_reserves |
Gold (1948 →) |
reserves.special_drawing_rights_holdings |
SDRs |
reserves.imf_reserve_position |
IMF reserve position |
For a weekly read between month-ends, the SBP's liquid-reserves snapshot is under reserves.liquid.sbp, reserves.liquid.banks and reserves.liquid.total (weekly, from October 2026).
The flows behind the numbers: remittances, the current account (bop.current_account_balance_3) and the rupee (fx.rate.avg.usd). See the external-sector dataset guide.