Amongst a host of patterns that emerge, this piece will focus on labour force participation, patterns of employment and gender pay gap, with a specific focus on agriculture. We also find that the proportion of people in the labour force, normalised by the country’s population, has increased slightly from 32.1 percent to 32.3 percent. Refining this and normalising the labour force by the working age population of Pakistan (age ten years and above), we find that the labour force participation rate has stagnated between 2018-19 to 2020-21. The unemployment rate, which measures the proportion of unemployed people in the total labour force, is down to 6.3 percent. This report paints a rosy picture of the labour force in Pakistan.

Source: The Nation April 29, 2022 03:23 UTC