Poverty overall decreases in Pakistan
July 2, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Poverty has declined significantly in Punjab in the last 20 years as it reduced from 61.8 percent population living below the poverty line in 1998-99 to 16.3 percent in 2018-19.
Balochistan is on top among the provinces where 40 percent population is still living in clutches of poverty in 2018-19 but 20 years back in 1998-99, KP used to assume the top position for having poverty level of 71 percent population into the poverty trap.
This provincial poverty estimates have been calculated by economists of Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), an affiliate research and degree awarding institution of the Planning Commission of Pakistan. Its poverty analysis shows that poverty was on bottom in 1998-99 in Balochistan among the four federating units where 55.9 percent population was living below the poverty line. The poverty at national level stood at 61.6 percent in 1998-99 whereas in Punjab it stood at 61.8 p
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