Rankings ยท Pakistan
Each ranking lists every office-holder by how one indicator moved from their first day in office, next to Pakistan or the province over the same months. A ranking of what happened during a tenure, not of who did it. Data as of Oct 2026. The worldwide rankings set them against every other country's.
Prime ministers
- Real GDP during each prime minister's tenurePakistan Bureau of Statistics quarterly national accounts via the IMF (QNEA, B1GQ, constant 2015-16 prices), summed over the trailing four quarters, from July 2015; the World Bank's GDP at constant rupees by fiscal year (July to June) before, rescaled to 2015-16
- Real GDP per person during each prime minister's tenurePakistan Bureau of Statistics quarterly GDP via the IMF (constant 2015-16 prices), summed over the trailing four quarters (the World Bank's fiscal-year GDP before July 2015), over the population (World Bank, UN estimates) interpolated to the quarter
- Unemployment rate during each prime minister's tenurePakistan Bureau of Statistics, Labour Force Survey, persons aged 15 and over (Employment Trends 2025, Table 3.1), eleven rounds from 2007-08, each over a fiscal year (July to June) and dated at its middle; no round in 2011-12, 2015-16, 2016-17 or 2019-20 to 2023-24
- Employment rate, 15 and over during each prime minister's tenurePakistan Bureau of Statistics, Labour Force Survey, persons aged 15 and over (Employment Trends 2025, Table 3.1), eleven rounds from 2007-08, each over a fiscal year (July to June) and dated at its middle; no round in 2011-12, 2015-16, 2016-17 or 2019-20 to 2023-24
- Inflation (CPI) during each prime minister's tenurePakistan Bureau of Statistics consumer price index via the IMF (CPI, all items, spliced across the bureau's base years by the IMF), national
- Population during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank (SP.POP.TOTL) from the UN's World Population Prospects, mid-year
- Happiness during each prime minister's tenureWorld Happiness Report, Figure 2.1 data (Gallup World Poll): life evaluation, the national average answer to Gallup's question of where on a ladder from 0 (the worst possible life) to 10 (the best) people stand today; each point the average of three years of surveys, dated at the middle one, with the WHR's 95 % interval from 2019; 2013 is not published
- Government effectiveness during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_GE.SC): perceptions of the quality of public services, the civil service and of policy-making, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
- Regulatory quality during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RQ.SC): perceptions of the government's ability to make and carry out sound rules that let private business form and compete, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
- Rule of law during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RL.SC): confidence in contracts, property rights, the police and the courts, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
- Control of corruption during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_CC.SC): perceptions of public power used for private gain, petty and grand, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
- Corruption perceptions index during each prime minister's tenureTransparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI score): perceived public-sector corruption as business people and country experts rate it, comparable from 2012, the score as TI publishes it with its confidence interval
- Voice and accountability during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_VA.SC): perceptions of how far citizens can take part in choosing their government, and of freedom of expression, association and the media, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
- Electoral democracy index during each prime minister's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_polyarchy): the electoral democracy index, free and fair elections with wide suffrage and the freedoms of association and expression that make them count, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
- Liberal democracy index during each prime minister's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_libdem): the liberal democracy index, electoral democracy plus the checks on the executive and the rights of the person, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
- Freedom of expression during each prime minister's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_freexp_altinf): the freedom of expression and alternative sources of information index, the press, academic and private speech and the media's independence, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
- Political stability during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_PV.SC): perceptions of the likelihood of political instability or politically motivated violence, terrorism included, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
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