The benchmark interest rate in Pakistan was last recorded at 11 percent. This dataset provides - Pakistan Interest Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Key information about Pakistan Policy Rate

• Pakistan cash rate (State Bank of Pakistan: Reverse Repo Rate) was set at 13.00 % pa in Feb 2025, compared with 13.00 % pa in the previous Jan 2025.
• Pakistan Policy Rate averaged 12.00 % pa and is updated monthly, available from Feb 1992 to Feb 2025.
• The data reached an all-time high of 23.00 % pa in May 2024 and a record low of 6.25 % pa in Dec 2017.

• In the latest reports, Pakistan Short Term Interest Rate: Month End: Pakistan: Interbank Rate: Karachi Average: 3 Months was reported at 22.91 % pa in Jun 2023.
• Its Long Term Interest Rate (Long Term Interest Rate: Month End: Pakistan: Government Bond Yield: 10 Years) was reported at 11.00 % pa in Jun 2023.
• Pakistan Exchange Rate against USD averaged 286.58 (USD/PKR) in Jun 2023.
• Its Real Effective Exchange Rate was 103.70 in Dec 2024.

Key information about Pakistan Long Term Interest Rate

• Pakistan Long Term Interest Rate: Month End: Pakistan: Government Bond Yield: 10 Years was reported at 11.00 % pa in Jun 2023, compared with 11.00 % pa in the previous month.
• Pakistan Long Term Interest Rate data is updated monthly, available from Mar 2015 to Jun 2023.
• The data reached an all-time high of 11.00 % pa in Jun 2023 and a record low of 8.00 % pa in Oct 2022.
• Long Term Interest Rate is reported by reported by CEIC Data.

• In the latest reports, Pakistan Short Term Interest Rate: Month End: Pakistan: Interbank Rate: Karachi Average: 3 Months was reported at 22.91 % pa in Jun 2023.
• The cash rate (State Bank of Pakistan: Reverse Repo Rate) was set at 23.00 % pa in Jun 2023.
• Pakistan Exchange Rate against USD averaged 286.58 (USD/PKR) in Jun 2023.

In 2018, the estimated average inflation rate in Pakistan amounted to about 3.93 percent compared to the previous year, a slight drop from 2017, but an ever sharper one compared to four years earlier. Over the next few years, forecasts estimate it to level off at around 6.5 percent.

Pakistan‘s more or less fragile economy

Pakistan is one of the most populous countries in the worldwith a large Muslim population and a rather low urbanization rate, which means that the majority of Pakistanis live in rural areas. However, the majority of the country's GDP is generated by the services sector, which also employs most of the workforce. As of now, Pakistan’s economic growth seems stable, but that wasn’t always the case.

Stable growth ahead?

Like many others, Pakistan’s economy suffered during the 2009 financial crisis, and while it has recovered today, inflation was still over 10 percent in 2012. GDP slumped during that time as well, but now, ten years later, it has almost tripled and seems to be on an upward trend. Although its GDP generation now mainly relies on services, Pakistan still exports agricultural goods like cotton. However, the country still struggles with an increasing trade deficit and thus rising national debt – two factors that could hinder economic growth in the future.

The Basel Core Principles (BCP) assessment was conducted in Panama City, Panama, from January 17 to February 6, 2023. This assessment of the implementation of the BCPs by the Superintendency of Banks of Panama (SBP) is part of the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) undertaken by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB). The assessors had the full cooperation from the Panamanian authorities and received all information necessary for the assessment. The SBP’s primary objective should be to safeguard the soundness of the financial system, with the remaining three objectives subordinate to this objective. The remaining two objectives, namely promoting trust in the banking system and safeguarding the judicial balance between the banking system and its clients, do not conflict with the SBP’s safety and soundness objective. The SBP collects and analyzes a wide range of prudential reports from banks on both a solo and a consolidated basis, but does not collect data on banks’ consolidated liquidity positions, wider concentration risks that may be run by banks or banking groups bank, and interest rate risk in the banking book (IRRBB). The SBP has implemented a framework for credit concentration risk and large exposure limits, but the framework does not apply to all material sources of concentration risk.

Inflation Rate in Pakistan decreased to 3.20 percent in June from 3.50 percent in May of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Pakistan Inflation Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.