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Pakistan economy has missed major economic targets and registered modest growth. Check out all you ever wanted to know about Pakistan economy.</br><br>Pakistan's Finance Minister Ishaq Dar shows a copy of the economic survey of fiscal year 2014-2015 during a news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, June 4, 2015.(Reuters)
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1. The 'Pakistan Economic Survey' stated that out of 23 key growth indicators, five hit the government's targeted growth rates while 18 indicators remained below expectations.</br><br>A vendor arranges different types of rice, with their prices displayed, at his shop in a wholesale market in Karachi, Pakistan. (Reuters)
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2. Overall GDP growth rate logged by Pakistan remained at 4.2 per cent which was lower than the set growth target of 5.1 per cent but better than previous year's 4.03 per cent, it said.</br><br>Pakistani cricket fans hold a banner in Urdu that says, "we are not terrorists nation, we are peaceful nation" as they arrive to Gaddafi Stadium for the third one-day international match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe, Sunday, May 31, 2015 in Lahore, Pakistan. (AP)
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3. Pakistan's economic growth is lower than the average 7 per cent growth in South Asia.</br><br>A laborer carries a basket of tomatoes on his head while walking along a row of empty wooden boxes in a vegetable wholesale market in Lahore, Pakistan June 4, 2015. (Reuters)
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4. The tax revenue as a percentage of GDP has declined in the past year, from 10.2 per cent in 2013-14 to 7.5 per cent in 2014-15.</br><br>A man selling mangoes pushes his wares on a cart at a market in Karachi, Pakistan, June 1, 2015. (Reuters)
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5. Inflation rate in Pakistan measured by the changes in CPI, averaged 4.8 per cent during July-April 2014-15 against 8.7 per cent in the comparable period last year, which is lowest since 2003.</br><br>Pakistani children who are displaced with their families from a Pakistani tribal area where security forces are fighting against militants, sit at a roadside before their homes in Islamabad's slums, Thursday, June 4, 2015 in Pakistan. (AP)
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6. Large scale manufacturing has registered a growth of 2.38 per cent as compared to the growth of 3.99 per cent last year. The target for the same was set at 7 per cent.</br><br>Women light candles in memory of those were kidnapped and killed on Friday in Quetta, Pakistan, May 31, 2015.(Reuters)
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7. Industrial sector in Pakistan recorded growth at 3.62 per cent as compared to 4.45 per cent last year. The target for the sector was 6.8 per cent. </br><br>Pakistani displaced women wash their laundry in a polluted canal in suburbs of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, May 29, 2015. (AP)
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8. Services sector in Pakistan has witnessed a growth rate of 4.95 per cent as compared to 4.37 per cent last year. </br><br>Pakistani children play in Lahore's slums, Thursday, June 4, 2015 in Pakistan. (AP)
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9. Agriculture growth in Pakistan stood at 2.9 per cent during July-March 2014-15 as compared to 2.7 per cent during the last year.</br><br>Pakistani police officers stand alert at an entrance of the Gaddafi stadium during the second one-day international match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe Friday, May 29, 2015.(AP)
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10. Pakistan government spent 0.42 per cent of GDP on health in fiscal year 2014-15. While actual expenditure has been rising year-over-year, the health-to-GDP figure has been more or less stagnant at under 0.5 per cent for decades. On average, in the past 5 years, Pakistan's expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP has been constant at around 2 per cent.</br><br>A man from Pakistan sits on a mattress at an abandoned hotel where immigrants have been given shelter on Kos island, Greece, Saturday, May 30, 2015. (AP)
