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Startups & market sizing

Investors ask for the TAM slide and where the numbers came from. PakDataHub gives founders and VCs official, dated figures to size Pakistani markets, and a history that shows the trend.

Digital economy

Metric Series
Instant payments (value, volume) payments.raast.total.value, payments.raast.total.volume, payments.raast.p2m.volume
E-commerce and QR merchants payments.ecommerce_merchants, payments.qr_merchants, payments.pos_merchants
Digital channel usage payments.mobile_banking_users, payments.ewallet_users, payments.channel.ecommerce.value
Cards in issue payments.cards.debit, payments.cards.credit, payments.cards.prepaid
Mobile reach telecom.subscribers.cellular.total, telecom.teledensity.total, telecom.broadband.data_petabytes

Consumer & SME demand

  • Remittance-funded household income: remittances.total.
  • Durables: auto.sales_cars, auto.total_sales_2_3_wheelers.
  • SME credit gap: sme.outstanding, sme.borrowers, sme.share_pvt_sector.
  • Mutual-fund penetration: /v1/funds/screener for fund counts and categories.

Example: Raast growth for a deck

curl -H "X-API-Key: pk_live_xxx" \
  "https://api.pakdatahub.com/v1/series/payments.raast.total.volume?sort=asc&format=csv"

Add transform=pct_change for quarter-on-quarter growth, or transform=index to show the curve from 100.

For diligence: every figure traces to its official publisher (meta.source), and revision vintages freeze exactly what you cited.

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