Poverty in Pakistan after

2000
Data shows poverty levels were in
decline since 2001, falling from 34.7pc in
2000-01 to 23.3pc in 2004-05,
21.9pc in 2005-06,
16.5pc in 2007-08,
12.2pc in 2010-11,
12.4pc in 2011-12
and 9.3pc in 2013-14 as estimated by
the World Bank.

21.9pc in 2006,
17.2pc in 2008

 Using 2013-14 data, the poverty

headcount ratio comes out to be
29.5pc of the population.
Under the old poverty line, the
percentage of the poor fell by around
25 percentage points, from a high of
34.6pc in 2001-02 to 9.3pc in 201314.

Poverty headcount at national

level 2008-09 to 2012-13

Province wise headcount

Current situation..
The PML-N government on 07 April
2016 announced that 60 million
Pakistanis are living below the
poverty line, posing a challenge for
the ruling party.
The number of poor increased owing to the
adoption of a new methodology for
measuring poverty
2001 poverty line formula that placed 20m
people poor was outdated and misleading.

Reasons of Poverty in
Pakistan

Corruption
Agricultural land division

Materialism:

Political instability & Law

and order