Journalists & data storytelling
When the SBP moves the policy rate, flour prices jump in Karachi or reserves fall, you need the official number, its history and a chart quickly. PakDataHub gives you all three from the official sources, with the source named on every series.
No-code first
- Inflation calculator: what a rupee amount from any year is worth today.
- USD/PKR history: the rupee against the dollar since 1947.
- Cost of living by city: how fast essentials are getting pricier in 17 cities.
- Fund screener: every mutual fund, ranked.
- A chart page for every series at
https://pakdatahub.com/series/{id}, e.g. /series/inflation.cpi.national.yoy.
The story series
| Story | Series |
|---|---|
| Inflation this month | inflation.cpi.national.yoy, food inflation.cpi.urban.food |
| Petrol or flour price in your city | /v1/commodities/by-city?item=petrol&city=karachi |
| Rupee depreciation | fx.rate.avg.usd with transform=yoy |
| Reserves crisis and recovery | reserves.total_sbp_reserves (monthly, 1948 →) |
| Remittances record | remittances.total |
| Interest-rate cycle | rates.policy_target, rates.kibor.6m |
| Car sales slump or boom | auto.sales_cars |
| Cashless Pakistan | payments.raast.total.value |
Get a CSV for your graphics desk
curl -H "X-API-Key: pk_live_xxx" \
"https://api.pakdatahub.com/v1/series/reserves.total_sbp_reserves?from=2020-01-01&sort=asc&format=csv" -o reserves.csv
Open it in Datawrapper, Flourish, Excel or Google Sheets (how).
Attribution: every series lists its official publisher (meta.source: SBP, PBS, PTA or MUFAP). Cite that publisher, with PakDataHub as the access route.