75 years of statistics on free digital platform: EPBD think tank rolls out ‘Pakistan Economic Dashboard’

The Economic Policy and Business Development (EPBD) think tank has unveiled a public resource called the Pakistan Economic Dashboard, Business Recorder reported. It pulls together official economic and social figures reaching back 75 years and places them on one free digital page. Users need neither a subscription nor a registration to open it.

Ten subject areas feature on the platform, from national output and the policy rate to external payments, household living standards and power-sector losses. A separate Pakistan Scorecard ranks the country on governance as well as economic and social indicators. The dashboard also records how historical series were compiled, including changes in methods, benchmarks and indices, and it publishes the underlying data.

According to the think tank, no figure has been estimated, modelled or filled in, and every number comes from official national sources. Series are not stitched together over shifts in base years or definitions, and the changes are flagged to aid comparison. EPBD says the tool is meant to spare researchers, policymakers, journalists and academics from reconciling figures across many official documents by hand.