Pakistan's stocks traded, total value (% of GDP) was 7.59% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 1.17 percentage points from 6.42% in 2020.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 7.59% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 6.42% | 2020 |
| Highest | 106.11% | 2004 |
| Lowest | 0.2% | 2014 |
| Average since 2020 | 5% | 2020–2025 |
| First recorded | 8.78% | 1996 |
Over five years it is up 1.17 percentage points from 6.42% in 2020. Since 1996 it is down 1.19 percentage points from 8.78% in 1996. The World Bank has no value for 7 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
What the numbers say
In 2025, Pakistan's stocks traded, total value (% of GDP) rose 2.26 percentage points on 2024 (from 5.33% to 7.59%).
Across the 19 yearly changes before that (1997 to 2024), the average change was −5.42 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 11.75 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 18.61 percentage points in 1999 and the biggest yearly fall was 33.31 percentage points in 2008. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Pakistan had the 27th highest value of the 61 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 7.59% | 2025 |
| World | 158.7% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 47.33% | 2025 |
Closest to Pakistan in the 2025 ranking
What this measures
The value of shares traded is the total number of shares traded, both domestic and foreign, multiplied by their respective matching prices. Figures are single counted (only one side of the transaction is considered). Companies admitted to listing and admitted to trading are included in the data. Data are end of year values.
Limitations: Data cover measures of size (market capitalization, number of listed domestic companies) and liquidity (value of shares traded as a percentage of gross domestic product, value of shares traded as a percentage of market capitalization). The comparability of such data across countries may be limited by conceptual and statistical weaknesses, such as inaccurate reporting and differences in accounting standards. Only EOB trades are included in the total value of shares traded.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 23 values
| Year | Stocks traded, total value (% of GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 7.59 |
| 2024 | 5.33 |
| 2023 | 2.61 |
| 2022 | 2.03 |
| 2021 | 5.99 |
| 2020 | 6.42 |
| 2019 | no data |
| 2018 | no data |
| 2017 | no data |
| 2016 | no data |
| 2015 |
Stocks traded, total value (% of GDP) in nearby economies
More financial sector data for Pakistan
- Domestic credit to private sector by banks (% of GDP) — 10.68% (2025)
- Net domestic credit (current LCU) — 55.96 trillion (2025)
- Net foreign assets (current LCU) — -249.12 billion (2025)
- Monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP) — 10.73% (2025)
- Broad money (current LCU) — 46.53 trillion (2025)
- Broad money (% of GDP) — 40.88% (2025)
- Broad money to total reserves ratio — 6.29 (2025)
- Consumer price index (2010 = 100) — 400.52 (2025)
- Inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) — 3.55% (2025)
- Claims on central government, etc. (% of GDP)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Pakistan's stocks traded, total value (% of GDP)?
- 7.59% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1996?
- It is down 1.19 percentage points from 8.78% in 1996. The highest value was 106.11% in 2004 and the lowest 0.2% in 2014.
- How does Pakistan rank?
- 27th highest of 61 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in stocks traded, total value (% of GDP) unusual for Pakistan?
- In 2025, Pakistan's stocks traded, total value (% of GDP) rose 2.26 percentage points on 2024 (from 5.33% to 7.59%). Across the 19 yearly changes before that (1997 to 2024), the average change was −5.42 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 11.75 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator CM.MKT.TRAD.GD.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: World Federation of Exchanges database, World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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