Quick Facts

World textile exports currently stand at roughly $800 billion. Pakistan’s share is at $12 billion which is 1.5% of total world exports whereas China’s share is 30%.
Pakistan cotton production for 2017-18 has been recorded at 11.5 Million bales (63% by Punjab 36% by Sindh) as compared to last year figure of 10.6 Million bales.
Pakistan’s textile exports reduced by 10% (from $13.8 billion in 2010-11 to $12.5 billion last year) in contrast to 31% growth by India (from $27 billion to $36 billion last year), 63% by Bangladesh (from $19 billion $32 billion) & 107% by Vietnam(from $15 billion to $31 billion).
Pakistan has around 200 garment factories as compared to 4,000 in Bangladesh.
Pakistan is the 4^th largest cotton producer and 3^rd largest cotton user in the world.

Agriculture & Livestock

In 2016-17, Pakistan imported 1.98 Million tons of edible oil worth PKR 152.5 Billion while its local production touched 0.45 Million tons.
Pakistan exported total 2.28 million metric tons of rice worth $1.06 billion in Jul17-Jan18 period as compared to 1.971 million metric tons amounting to $0.820 million.
Agri sector produces 24% of Pakistan’s GDP & employs 50% of workforce.
The International Grains Council (IGC) puts Pakistan’s total grains production at 31.3 million tons in 2016-17, compared with 31.1 million the year before.
Pakistan is set to import a total of 200,000 tons of grains in 2016-17, down from 400,000 the year before.
Pakistan is the 5^th largest citrus producer, 10^th largest rice producer & 4^th largest rice exporter of the world.
Rice is country’s 2^nd biggest export after textiles.
Wheat procurement price was set at PKR 1,300 per 40Kg for the 2016-17 season. Wheat stock as on 28.02.17 was 5.52M tons.
Livestock is 60% of total agri in Pakistan, employs more than 35M people & produces almost USD 500M worth of products. Pakistan is the 5^th largest milk producer of the world.

Auto Sector

The production of motor bikes in the country increased by 16.91% during 7-month period Jul17-Jun18 (rose to 1,091,555 units from 935,951 units in same period of previous year). Honda has the majority share of 59% in production.
The automotive industry contributes nearly PKR 50 billion (3% of GDP), employing a workforce of 192,000 directly and 1.2 million indirectly.
There are 500 auto-parts manufacturers in the country that supply parts to original equipment manufacturers.
Auto sector presently, contributes 16% to the manufacturing sector. Vehicles’ manufacturers directly employ over 192,000 people with a total investment of over $ 1.5 billion.
Currently, there are around 82 vehicles’ assemblers in the industry producing passengers cars, light commercial vehicles, trucks, buses, tractors and 2/3 wheelers.

Sugar

Pakistan is 6^th largest sugar exporter of the world. It is the 2^nd largest agro-based industry of the country with 89 sugar mills spread all over the country and a daily crushing capacity of nearly 0.7M tons.
Pakistan’s per capita sugar consumption is 25kg per annum & 60% of the commodity is used in local processed food sector.
For 2016-17 season, expected local sugar production is 5.5M tons (extracted from 70M tons sugarcane), carryover stock from last season is 1.2M tons, local annual consumption is 5M tons & excess stock of 1.7M tons is expected next year.

Cement

In 2014, Pakistan is world’s 17^th largest cement producer and 18^th largest consumer. Total installed and operating capacities in the local cement industry were 45.64M tonnes and 34.89M tonnes during FYE 06/2015.
In North, there are about 19 cement plant units with annualized cement production capacity of about 37M tonnes (81% of total country capacity) whereas South has about 5 companies with annualized cement production capacity of about 8.6M tonnes (19% of total country capacity).
Planned expansion in sector is over 28M tons in the next 5 years taking the total capacity to 72M tons.