Overview
- PBS released the HIES 2024–25, the first digital round covering about 32,000 households, after fieldwork concluded in June 2025 and a launch attended by Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal.
- National literacy stands at 63% versus about 60% in 2018–19, with Punjab at 68% and Balochistan at 49%, and the share of out-of-school children down to 28%.
- Individual internet users reached 57% as household connectivity climbed, with 96% of households reporting access to a mobile phone or smartphone.
- Health indicators improved, with full immunisation at 73%, neonatal mortality at 35 per 1,000 and infant mortality at 47 per 1,000, alongside a total fertility rate of 3.6.
- Officials cast the results as gradual gains and a call to accelerate education efforts, noting roughly 25 million children remain out of school.