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Policy, development & NGOs

Development programmes, think tanks and donors track the same questions: who is included, what things cost and how the state spends. PakDataHub brings the official indicators for all three into one place.

Financial inclusion

Indicator Series
Instant payments adoption payments.raast.p2p.volume, payments.raast.p2m.volume
Mobile and internet banking users payments.mobile_banking_users, payments.internet_banking_users
Branchless-banking agents payments.bb_agents, payments.branchless.*
Social-welfare cards in issue payments.cards.social_welfare
SME credit access sme.borrowers, sme.outstanding, sme.share_pvt_sector

Cost of living & food security

  • Weekly prices of 30 essentials in 17 cities: /v1/commodities/by-city.
  • cost_of_living.<city>: a weekly essentials index per city.
  • inflation.cpi.rural.food vs inflation.cpi.urban.food: food inflation, rural vs urban.

Fiscal space & public services

  • Provincial finances: fiscal.consolidated_provincial_total_revenue, fiscal.overall_fiscal_balance_punjab (and _sindh, _kpk, _baluchistan).
  • Health infrastructure: health.total_number_hospitals, health.population_bed.
  • Education: education.enrolment.*, education.institutions.*, education.literacy.*.

Household income from abroad

remittances.total and the remittances-by-country series show the inflows that support millions of households.

# Rural vs urban food inflation, one year
curl -H "X-API-Key: pk_live_xxx" "https://api.pakdatahub.com/v1/series/inflation.cpi.rural.food?transform=yoy&limit=12"
curl -H "X-API-Key: pk_live_xxx" "https://api.pakdatahub.com/v1/series/inflation.cpi.urban.food?transform=yoy&limit=12"
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