Pakistan - News and Discussion 6

[Naresh]

Acharya Ji,

1. Please give a Link to your quoted Articles. Thanks in advance.

2. Pakistani Per Capita Income is a Hoax. Please check the Pakistani F Y 2005 GDP, GNP Per Capita Income etc. as per the State Bank of Pakistan – GDP USD 109 Billion and PCI USD 729 – and compare them with the Pakistani Economic Survey F Y 2005 – GDP about USD 130 Billion and PCI USD 847.

However, the Pakistanis cannot hide the Truth :

<b>$5.7b every year can maintain per capita income</b>

<b>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will need an additional investment of US $5.7 billion every year <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>to maintain its per capita income of $652 under the current population growth rate of 1.9 percent.</span></b>

According to the Ministry of Population, Pakistan had Rs 20 billion GDP in 1960 with per capita income of $91, which had now increased to $652. In 1960, per capita water availability was 4,000 cubic metres when the country’s population was 42 million, while in 2000, water availability declined to 1,400 cubic metres per capita with a population of 140 million. In 2003, the country’s population increased to 149 million, while the availability of water diminished to 1,200 cubic metres. In 2012, water availability will be only 1,000 cubic metres for an expected population of 176 million and in 2020, only 885 cubic metres of water will be available.

According to the Population Ministry data, 43 percent of the country’s population is less then 14 years of age, 53 percent are between ages of 15 to 65, while four percent of the country’s population is above 65 years of age. Pakistan shares only 0.6 percent of the world’s total area of land (0.796 million square kilometres), yet its population share to the world population is 2.36 percent. Pakistan is ranked number six among the most populous countries in the world after China, India, the US, Indonesia and Brazil. In 1950, Pakistan was at number 14.

The ministry under its programme of action, made in line with the recommendations of Ulema summit on population and development, has planned to achieve population growth rate of 1.3 percent by 2020. The ministry also plans to bring down total fertility rate to 2.1 percent from the current rate of 4.1 percent by 2020. Pakistan’s total fertility rate is one of the highest in the world after Afghanistan 6.8, Ethiopia 5.9, Nigeria 5.7 and Sudan 5.4 percent. The contraceptive prevalence rate in the country is 34 percent, which was much lower than most other Muslim countries. Algeria has 64 percent, Bangladesh 54 percent, Egypt 60 percent, Indonesia 60 percent, Iran 74 percent, Malaysia 55 percent, Morocco 63 percent, Turkey 64 percent and Uzbekistan 68 percent. Pakistan’s contraceptive prevalence is only higher than Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Sudan. Afghanistan’s population growth rate is 2.7 percent, Nigeria 2.9 percent, Ethiopia 2.4 percent and Sudan 2.8 percent. Under the programme of action, the ministry had planned to increase contraceptive prevalence rate to 60 percent by 2020 by sensitising the people to the benefits of contraceptives and provide them with better choice of contraceptives.

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