Life in Pakistan: Every Number That Shapes It (1800–2100)

To grasp the scale of a human life in Pakistan, one must look past the headlines and into the aggregate. A child born in the 2020s can expect to live 66.3 years on an average income of 5,000 international dollars. These figures serve as the quiet backdrop to millions of individual stories, measuring the fundamental shifts in health, resources, and opportunity. While data often feels distant, it traces the actual biological and social boundaries that define daily survival and the evolving potential of a nation.

The historical trajectory is one of profound transition. In the 1950s, life expectancy at birth was 34.84, with child mortality at 402.26 per 1,000 births and children per woman at 7.99. Today, those numbers have shifted to 66.3 years, 65.2 per 1,000 births, and 3.55 births respectively. Infrastructure has also transformed, with electricity at home rising from 4.46 to 75 % and those living in cities growing from 16.61 to 37.2 %. Even as annual working hours remain high at 2,300, extreme poverty has fallen from 46.52 to 4.5 %.

For someone born in this era, the environment is fundamentally different from the past. You now navigate a world where years of schooling have reached 4.5 years, internet access stands at 25 %, and the homicide rate is 3.8 per 100,000. Physical well-being has also tracked these improvements, with the average male height shifting from 164 to 167 cm. This numerical record documents a society undergoing rapid, structural change over several decades. We invite you to use our interactive tools to compute your own parallel lives.