South Asia
Pakistan
EU Compliance · Geopolitical Risk · Sourcing Attractiveness
Market-entry intelligence →Why these scores
EU Compliance, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Geopolitical Risk, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Attractiveness, by dimension
9 = most attractive · methodology & sources
Analyst scores, last reviewed June 2026; each dimension's sources and cadence are on its methodology page.
Data layers
The EU is Pakistan's #6 import source (world lens). Pakistan is the EU's #65 goods supplier.
Pakistan on the world stage
Total imports
$56.5bn
2024 annual
Total exports
$32.4bn
202 partners
#1 import source
China
28.3%
#1 export dest.
USA
17.3%
2024 annual, UN Comtrade (HS TOTAL, all partners). Line colour: coverage (exports/imports per partner).
Pakistan and the EU
EU imports from
€8.7bn
0.3% of extra-EU
EU exports to
€3.5bn
0.1% of extra-EU
EU supplier rank
EU's #65 supplier
EU trade balance
one-sided
coverage 0.40
2025 annual totals, Eurostat COMEXT. EU trade board →
Electricity & grid
National sources · carbon from Ember
Industrial
142
EUR/MWh
Consumer
58
EUR/MWh, all-in
Grid carbon
399
gCO₂e/kWh
Renewables
5%
of generation
Wholesale 73 EUR/MWh · regulated market
Power market
● Take-or-pay / single-buyer lock-inMarket model
Single buyer (CTBCM transition)
Direct PPA
Pilot
grid access: limited
Reserve margin
45%
Regulator
Independent
National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA)
Circular debt near 1.8 trillion rupees and take-or-pay capacity payments to idle, dollar-indexed IPPs are the textbook single-buyer trap, now being unwound by forced conversion of contracts to take-and-pay.
Tracked infrastructure
44 gas plants
16.4 GW · 2 building
21 coal plants
8.3 GW · 2 building
34 wind farms
1.8 GW · 3 building
13 solar farms
830 MW
6 nuclear plants
3.5 GW
16 hydro plants
10.4 GW · 8 building
1 coal mines
capacity n/a
Operating assets tracked by Global Energy Monitor (CC BY 4.0); counts are tracked facilities, not exhaustive totals. Energy overview →
Metal mining
Tagged mines
4
1 production-backed
Acid-drainage prone
0
high water-risk ore class
Main commodities
Other mine, Gold
Mine-water verifiability
Partial
PCRWR national water-quality monitoring + provincial EPAs
Water risk is inferred from the ore class, not site measurements. Global mines: full layer →
Monitored ports (5)
Source: IMF PortWatch. Port count reflects monitoring coverage, not economic significance.
Demographics
UN World Population Prospects 2024 · medium variant
Median age
20.4
→ 26.3 by 2050
Fertility
3.55
above replacement
Working-age
59%
aged 15–64
Old-age dep.
7.3
→ 9.9 by 2050
Median age 1990–2050
Population 251M · still growing past 2100
By 2050: +48% (372M)