{
  "id": 6836114,
  "title": "75 years of statistics on free digital platform: EPBD think tank rolls out ‘Pakistan Economic Dashboard’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/75-years-of-statistics-on-free-digital-platform-epbd-think-tank-rolls",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-12T00:46:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Recorder",
    "slug": "business-recorder",
    "url": "https://www.brecorder.com/news/40439104/75-years-of-statistics-on-free-digital-platform-epbd-think-tank-rolls-out-pakistan-economic-dashboard"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Islamabad has seen the launch of the Pakistan Economic Dashboard, a comprehensive digital platform by the Economic Policy and Business Development (EPBD) Think Tank. The free online resource collates over seventy-five years of official economic and social statistics from various public agencies onto a single platform. The platform covers ten key areas, including GDP, real growth, policy rates, balance of payments, power-sector losses, and household living standards. An additional feature, the Pakistan Scorecard, provides rankings on governance and economic and social indicators.\n\nAccording to EPBD, the dashboard aims to tackle the issue of data dispersion across different official statements, releases, and reports. It brings together long-term statistics on GDP, growth, energy, prices, debt, trade, and socio-economic indicators. Every figure on the dashboard is directly sourced from official national sources, without any estimation, modeling, or filling in of data. The platform maintains the original series without chaining them across changes in base years or definitions, facilitating accurate historical comparisons.\n\nEPBD emphasizes that the initiative is designed to save researchers, policymakers, journalists, academics, and other users the trouble of manually reconciling data from multiple official documents. The dashboard provides a transparent account of the decisions involved in compiling each historical series and publishes the underlying data. It is available for free, without any subscription or registration, and can be accessed even on slow connections or shared computers. EPBD has taken measures to ensure user privacy by not making external requests, setting cookies, or storing information in the browser.\n\nThe EPBD encourages the use of the resource by researchers, academia, students, journalists, policymakers, practitioners, officials, and the general public. They invite users to report any errors, inconsistencies, or suggestions for improvement.",
  "summary": "ISLAMABAD: The Economic Policy and Business Development (EPBD) Think Tank has launched a public ‘Pakistan Economic Dashboard’, bringing more than 75 years of official economic and social statistics onto a single free digital platform. The dashboard, launched as an EPBD initiative, aims to address the longstanding problem of dispersion of Pakistan’s economic data across statements, releases and…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}