The life expectancy in Pakistan for males is 64 years and for females is 66 years.
• About 2.6 million workers are estimated as un-employed in 2006-07 and
unemployment rate is 5.3 percent.
• Agriculture remains the dominant source of employment in Pakistan. The share
of agriculture in employment has increased from 43 percent in 2003-04 to 43.61
percent by the year 2006-07, with manufacturing (13.54%) and trade(14.43%) &
services(14.41%) absorbing a growing share of the work force.
• The total road network is about 260,000 km of which around 60% is paved..
• Telecom sector continued to show a stellar growth in last few years. Today total
subscriber base stands at 82.5 million (Mar 2008) whereas it was 34.5 million in
2006.
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