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2. OUTLINE
• EMPLOYMENT
• POPULATION
• POVERTY
• HEALTH
• EDUCATION
• ENVIRONMENT
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3. Strong global economic growth during 2007helped
stabilize the world labor markets. The major portion of
jobs created due to increasing level of productivity was
in South Asia.
The labor force of Pakistan has witnessed a rise over the
years and was estimated to be 51.78 million in 2007-
08. Positive economic growth over the last six years has
led to an increase in the number of employed labor
force reached 49.09 million during 2007-08 as compared
to 47.65 million in 2006-07 and38.37 million in 2001-
02.
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4. 2006-07 2007-08
Indicators
Labor force (in million)
Total 50.33 51.78
Male 39.92 40.82
Female 10.41 10.96
Employed
Total 47.65 49.09
Male 38.11 39.06
Female 9.54 10.03
Unemployed
Total 2.68 2.69
Male 1.81 1.76
Female 0.87 0.93
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5. Indicators 2006-07 2007-08
Employment by sector (%)
Total 100.0 100.0
Agriculture 43.6 44.6
Industry 21.0 20.1
Services 35.4 35.3
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6. Indicators 2006-07 2007-08
Unemployment Rates (%)
Pakistan
Total 5.3 5.2
Male 4.5 4.3
Female 8.4 8.5
Rural
Total 4.7 4.7
Male 4.0 3.9
Female 7.1 6.9
Urban
Total 6.7 6.3
Male 5.6 5.0
Female 14.6 17.7
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7. Pakistan is the fourth most populous country in
Asia and sixth in the world. Having an average
annual growth rate of 2.02 percent the population
of the country reached 160 million in 2007 as
compared to 139 million in 2002, whereas during
the said period the overall world population
increased by average annual growth rate of 1.17
percent.
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8. % of
Date Last world
Rank Country / Territory Population Source
Updated populatio
n
Chinese Population clo
ck
April 17, Hong Kong Statistics
China [4]
1 1,337,722,000 19.87%
2009 Macau statistics
Figure for Mainland
China is 1,330,164,000
April 23, Indian Population
2 India 1,162,300,000 17.16%
2009 clock
April 23, Official USA
3 United States 306,274,000 4.52%
2009 Population clock
April 21, Indonesian Population
4 Indonesia 230,014,115 3.42%
2009 clock
April 23, Official Brazilian
5 Brazil 191,093,000 2.81%
2009 Population clock
Official Pakistani
April 16,
6 Pakistan 166,146,000 2.47% Population clock
2009
(FBS)
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9. Continued…
Though, population growth rate in Pakistan has
declined to 1.8 percent in 2008 from 2.06
percent in
2000, according to Population Reference Bureau
(PRB), the projected population increase in
the
country over the period 2007-2050 would be 74
percent;
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11. Population Bifurcation
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12. Population Indicators
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13. Eradication of extreme poverty and hunger is
the first goal among eight Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) of the United
Nations Millennium Declaration (MD) 2000.
Three targets of this goal are to be achieved
by 2015 by the signatory countries. These
targets include:
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14. Continued…
(a) halving the number of people whose income
is less than $1 a day,
(b)Achieving full and productive employment
and decent work for all, including women and
young people;
(c)reducing the number of people who suffer
from hunger by half.
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15. Poverty in Pakistan:
The impact of double digit inflation observed in
FY08 is likely to affect poverty adversely.
During FY08 CPI inflation was recorded at 12
percent, however, for the lowest income
group it was 14.26 percent as compared to
10.71 percent for the highest income group
which shows that inflation affects the poorest
segments with high intensity.
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16. Trends of Poverty (in percent)
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17. Population Under Various Poverty
Bands (in percent)
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18. Strategies of Poverty and Inequality
Reduction
The decline in poverty during 2005-06 is a proof
of Pakistan’s commitment to the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs).
It aims to reduce poverty to 21 percent by 2010
and to 13 percent by 2015. MTDF strategy for
poverty reduction involves pro-poor growth,
social development, good governance and
social protection.
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19. Recent Poverty Reduction Initiatives of
the Government.
• Increasing targeted safety net programs to
protect poor and vulnerable against shocks
• Accelerating employment generation by
improving education including technical
education
• Focusing on less developed areas for
development
• Revitalize agricultural growth as poverty is
persistent in rural areas
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20. Recent Poverty Reduction Initiatives
of the Government.
• Financial inclusion with particular focus on
microfinance and Small and Medium
Sector(SME).In this regard, special programs
include Income Support Fund involving social
protection initiatives, Hunarmand Pakistan,
Placement Bureaus, Housing Fund for the
poor, White Revolution, Expansion and Up-
gradation of Basic Health Units (BHUs), Village
Product Specialization and doubling Lady
Health Workers from 100000 to 200000.
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21. Health is perhaps the biggest challenge
and constraint for human development
in South Asia as reflected by the Human
development Index (HDI) and especially
the Health Index.
Most of South Asia is lagging behind in
achieving the four-health –related MDGs.
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22. Health Indicators
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23. Pakistan
has also witnessed an improvement in infant
mortality rate (IMR) and less than five
mortality rate (U5MR) during the period
2000-06, but the rate of improvement
remained slow.
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28. Human Resource Available During
2000 2007
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29. The constitution of Pakistan requires the
government to ensure that its citizens have
access to education. The government with its
limited resources has adopted several
measures to improve education in the country
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30. Indicators 2006-07 2007-08
Literacy Rates(%)
Pakistan
Total 55.0 56.2
Male 67.0 68.2
Female 42.4 43.6
Rural
Total 46.2 47.5
Male 60.8 61.9
Female 31.2 32.5
Urban
Total 71.1 72.3
Male 78.2 79.6
Female 63.5 64.5
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33. Performance Regarding Millennium
Development Goal (MDG)
Pakistan is under obligation to raise Net
Enrolment Ratio (NER) at the primary level to
100 percent
by 2015; being signatory to the Millennium
Development Goals (MDG). A detailed analysis
shows
that Pakistan lags behind in targets set by the
millennium development declaration.
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34. Pakistan Status Regarding MDG
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35. Low literacy rates, particularly among females
and in rural areas and low survival rate to
grade 5 still remain a key challenge. However,
the government seems committed to the
millennium development goals as it has
increased the allocated amount for the
preprimary
and primary education in the budget
2008-09.
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36. Continued…
The government needs to allocate
more financial resources to achieve
the goal
of universal primary education.
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37. Major Characteristics
Over exploitation of environmental
resources is characterized by:
• Deforestation
• Soil Erosion
• Air Pollution
• Shortage of Clean and Drinking Water
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38. • Environmental degradation affects the poor
through pollution increasing the risk of
diseases and eventually results in loss of
productivity and income of the poor.
• Air pollution in Pakistan is adding about $500
million per year to health care cost.
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40. Major initiatives to protect the
environment
The present government has declared 2009 year of
environment.
• An amount of Rs. 210 million has been earmarked
in the federal budget 2008-09 for environmental.
protection which shows an increase of 14.75
percent over the amount allocated for
environmental protection
in the previous year budget.
• The Government is planning to launch 8000
environment friendly CNG buses in major cities of
the country.
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41. Major initiatives to protect the
environment
• To provide access to clean drinking water, a National
Drinking Water Policy has been introduced. The
overall goal of this policy is to ensure safe drinking water
to the entire population at an affordable cost, in an
equitable, efficient and sustainable manner.
• Ministry of environment has come up with conveniently
observed indicators to assess the quality of drinking
water. These indicators include color, taste, odour and
turbidity of water.
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42. Main Objective
• The main objective of the programme was to
achieve environmental sustainability
• NEAP Phase-1 achieved various targets
relating to National Environmental Policy,
National Sanitation policy, Clean Development
Mechanism Strategy and National Forest
policy and Energy Conservation Policy
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43. Achievement
An achievement that merits
mentioning here is the
replacement of liquid petroleum
fuels with CNG to protect
Environment.
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