Pakistan Public Debt Per Person Today

Why this matters

Debt totals in trillions are hard to feel. Divided by the population the number becomes legible, and it is the clearest single measure of how much of the future has already been spent.

Economy: Rising debt per person means a larger share of tax revenue is committed to interest before a rupee reaches health, schools or infrastructure, which is the mechanism behind repeated fiscal squeezes.

For you: This is your share of what the state owes. It does not arrive as a bill, but it is why taxes rise, subsidies are withdrawn and public services stay thin.

How debt per person is calculated

Formula: PKR 86,715 billion in total public debt (30 June 2026) divided by 255.220 million people (World Bank estimate, 2025 (255.220 million)) = approximately PKR 339,766 per person. The debt and population figures come from different publishers and reporting periods.

The debt figure is total public debt, including PKR 59,441 billion domestic and PKR 27,274 billion external debt. The denominator is the World Bank's population estimate, not a same-year census count.

• Finance Division: Debt Management Office publications
• World Bank: Pakistan population, total
• World Bank Open Data licence (CC BY 4.0)