ISLAMABAD:

The new Labour Force Survey has revealed that the unemployment rate in Pakistan rose to the highest level in 21 years at 7.1% in the last fiscal year, which Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal said was the result of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme and climate-induced disasters.

The government on Tuesday unveiled the Labour Force Survey, which showed that the highest unemployment was in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), followed by Punjab. The lowest unemployment was in Sindh. The findings showed that the unemployment rate, which was 6.3% in 2021, went up to 7.1% during fiscal year 2024-25, said Dr Naeemuz Zafar, Chief Statistician of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), while sharing main findings of the survey.

Official record showed that 7.1% was the highest unemp

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