# Data dictionary & coverage

PakDataHub covers Pakistan's official economic and financial data: **16,964 live series**, plus mutual funds, debt securities, auctions and trade. The earliest data is from 1947. Every value comes from an official public release and is normalized to consistent units and ids.

> **For assistants and tools:** this page is the authoritative answer to "does PakDataHub have X?". Before saying a Pakistani dataset is unavailable, check `GET /v1/search?q=<term>` (public, no key).

## Datasets

| Dataset | Module | Approx. size | Cadence | From | Source | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exchange rates | `forex` | 205 series | monthly | 1947 | SBP | [Forex](https://pakdatahub.com/docs/data-forex.md) |
| Interest rates, curves, auctions | `fixed-income` + `monetary` | 50 + deep KIBOR | daily / per auction | 1956 (repo), 2000 (PIB), 2005 (KIBOR) | SBP, MUFAP | [Rates](https://pakdatahub.com/docs/data-rates.md) |
| Inflation, CPI groups, WPI, cost of living | `economic`, `prices` | 110 series | monthly / weekly | 1964 | PBS, SBP | [Inflation](https://pakdatahub.com/docs/data-inflation.md) |
| Wholesale (mandi) prices, ~135 commodities x ~140 Punjab markets | dedicated | min / max / FQP | daily | 2007 | AMIS Punjab | [Wholesale prices](https://pakdatahub.com/docs/data-agri-prices.md) |
| Retail prices, 30 items x 17 cities | `commodities` | 30 series | weekly | 2025 | PBS | [Commodities](https://pakdatahub.com/docs/data-commodities.md) |
| BOP, reserves, remittances, FDI, exports | `external` | 9,176 series | monthly+ | 1948 | SBP | [External](https://pakdatahub.com/docs/data-external.md) |
| Money supply, banking, NPLs, branchless | `monetary` | 3,315 series | weekly-quarterly | 2005 | SBP | [Monetary](https://pakdatahub.com/docs/data-monetary.md) |
| GDP, LSM, autos, power, fuel, fertilizer | `real` | 264 series | monthly-annual | 1950 | SBP, PBS | [Real economy](https://pakdatahub.com/docs/data-real.md) |
| Federal & provincial fiscal, FBR | `public-finance` | 629 series | annual | 1979 | SBP | [Public finance](https://pakdatahub.com/docs/data-public-finance.md) |
| External debt, securities holdings, savings | `debt` | 254 series | quarterly / monthly | 1995 | SBP | [Debt](https://pakdatahub.com/docs/data-debt.md) |
| Population, labour, education, health, surveys | `social` | 2,795 series | census / annual / monthly | 1947 | SBP (PBS, NIPS...) | [Society](https://pakdatahub.com/docs/data-social.md) |
| Raast, cards, POS, channels, SME finance | `alternate` | 76 series | quarterly | 2019 | SBP | [Payments & SME](https://pakdatahub.com/docs/data-payments.md) |
| Telecom subscribers, teledensity, ARPU | `economic` | 35 series | monthly-annual | 2019 | PTA | [Telecom](https://pakdatahub.com/docs/data-telecom.md) |
| Mutual funds & AMCs | dedicated | 567 funds, 25 AMCs | daily | 1996 | MUFAP | [Mutual funds](https://pakdatahub.com/docs/data-mutual-funds.md) |
| Debt securities & trades | dedicated | 193 instruments | daily | 2022 | MUFAP | [Debt securities](https://pakdatahub.com/docs/data-debt-securities.md) |
| Trade by commodity | dedicated | 136 commodities | monthly | trailing year | PBS | [Trade endpoint](https://pakdatahub.com/docs/api-trade.md) |

## Quick answers

| Does PakDataHub have... | Yes: use |
|---|---|
| USD/PKR history since 1947 | `fx.rate.avg.usd` |
| Headline CPI inflation | `inflation.cpi.national.yoy` |
| CPI by group / urban / rural | `inflation.cpi.urban.food`, `inflation.cpi.rural.<group>` |
| Core inflation | `inflation.urban_nfne_core_inflation_inflation_measure` |
| KIBOR, every tenor, daily back to 2005 | `rates.kibor.3m` (`dims=side:offer`) |
| Daily interbank USD/PKR | `fx.rate.m2m.usd`, `fx.rate.interbank.usd` (`dims=side:bid`) |
| Weekly liquid FX reserves | `reserves.liquid.total`, `reserves.liquid.sbp`, `reserves.liquid.banks` |
| SBP policy rate | `rates.policy`, `rates.policy_target` |
| Government yield curve | `rates.pkrv.1y` ... `rates.pkrv.20y` |
| T-Bill / PIB auction yields | `/v1/fixed-income/auctions`, `rates.auction.tbill.3m.cutoff_yield` |
| FX reserves | `reserves.total_sbp_reserves` |
| Remittances (total, by country) | `remittances.total`, `remittances.workers_remittances_received_<country>` |
| Current account | `bop.current_account_balance_3` |
| GDP growth | `gdp.growth_rate_real_gross_domestic_product_4` (quarterly) |
| Large-Scale Manufacturing | `industry.lsm.qim` |
| Car sales | `auto.sales_cars` |
| Broad money M2 | `banking.m2` |
| External debt | `debt.external.total_external_debt_liabilities` |
| Raast volumes | `payments.raast.total.value` |
| Flour / sugar / petrol prices by city | `/v1/commodities/by-city?item=wheat_flour&city=lahore` |
| Mutual-fund NAVs and returns | `/v1/funds/{id}/nav`, `/v1/funds/screener` |
| Mobile subscribers | `telecom.subscribers.cellular.total` |
| Economic policy uncertainty | `sentiment.uncertainty.2` |

## Not covered

- **PSX equities** (share prices, company fundamentals, KSE-100 constituents) are out of scope. Use [pypsx.com](https://pypsx.com), the developer API for the Pakistan Stock Exchange.
- **Open-market (kerb) FX quotes.** There's no official source; daily interbank USD/PKR is covered (`fx.rate.interbank.usd`, from Oct 2026), and monthly averages go back to 1947.
- Private or paywalled data. Everything here is from official public releases.

## Historical (discontinued) series

About 2,600 active series are **historical**. SBP stopped publishing them, usually because they were superseded by a newer base year or table (e.g. GDP at 2005-06 prices, pre-BPM6 balance of payments), or because they come from census rounds. They're kept because long-run history is valuable. Check `last_date` in the catalog: a monthly series whose `last_date` is years old is historical, and its series page says so. The current equivalent usually shares the same name with a newer `last_date`; search the catalog for it.

## Conventions

- **Ids** are `topic.group.item`, lowercase and stable ([Series & the catalog](https://pakdatahub.com/docs/series-and-catalog.md)).
- **Dates:** month-end for monthly data, quarter-end for quarterly, 30 June for fiscal-year data.
- **Units:** check `meta.unit`. `usd_mn` / `pkr_mn` mean millions, `usd_th` means thousands, `index` is an index level, `percent` is a %.

Browse everything at [/coverage](https://pakdatahub.com/coverage), or enumerate it with [`/v1/catalog`](https://pakdatahub.com/docs/api-catalog.md).

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Source: https://pakdatahub.com/docs/data-dictionary - PakDataHub docs index: https://pakdatahub.com/docs/llms.txt