Pakistan’s Economic Survey 2025-26 has laid out the country’s progress under the Digital Nation Pakistan framework, confirming that information technology exports reached $3.38 billion in the July to March period of fiscal year 2026 while highlighting ambitious targets for broadband speeds, fibre coverage, fifth generation connectivity, and digital inclusion across the country.
The survey frames Pakistan’s digital transformation around four interconnected priorities: expanding affordable internet access, accelerating artificial intelligence adoption, improving nationwide connectivity infrastructure, and advancing local technology manufacturing. On the connectivity side, the government has set a target of achieving broadband speeds between 50 and 100 Mbps for users across Pakistan, alongside a goal of increasing the national fibre coverage ratio to 60 percent. These targets align with the rollout obligations embedded in Pakistan’s recently passed Telecom Amendment Bill 2026 and the four-phase fifth generation rollout framework submitted to the National Assembly, which mandates operators to progressively increase their fibre-to-the-site ratios and raise minimum data speed thresholds as part of their spectrum auction licensing conditions.
The $3.38 billion in IT exports recorded over nine months of the fiscal year puts Pakistan firmly on track toward the government’s projection of crossing $4.5 billion for the full fiscal year, a 20 percent increase over the previous year that would mark a new annual record for the sector. The Digital Nation Pakistan framework has been supplemented by a broader set of human capital and financial inclusion metrics that reflect how the government is measuring the depth of the digital transformation beyond pure export numbers. Over 800,000 digital wallets have been created as part of the financial inclusion push, while 240,000 women have been trained in digital skills, reflecting a deliberate effort to ensure that the benefits of Pakistan’s digital economy reach segments of the population that have historically been excluded from the formal technology sector. Together, these figures from the Economic Survey 2025-26 provide the most comprehensive official snapshot yet of where Pakistan stands in its digital transformation journey and what the government considers the benchmark indicators of meaningful national progress.
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