World Bank Group data on Pakistan's private sector and trade, aggregated from multiple sources including the Private Participation in Infrastructure Project Database, Enterprise Surveys, and Doing Business Indicators. The dataset is provided in CSV format under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated on 2026-04-28. It consolidates indicators related to economic growth, private investment, and international trade integration.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking Pakistan's business environment based on Doing Business Indicators mentioned in the description
- Analyzing private investment in infrastructure projects based on the Private Participation in Infrastructure database
- Modeling trade flows and economic growth relationships using data from the IMF and WTO sources
- Profiling enterprise characteristics and constraints using indicators from Enterprise Surveys
Strengths
- Data originates from authoritative sources like the World Bank Group, IMF, and WTO.
- Covers multiple facets of the private sector and trade through consolidated indicators.
- Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Group, IMF, UNCTAD, WTO, and other sources.
- Collection Method
- Aggregated from the World Bank's data portal and consolidated on HDX.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-28 10:16:15.463983; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Pakistan