{"id":1148423,"date":"2026-01-19T20:14:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/?p=1148423"},"modified":"2026-01-19T20:14:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:14:58","slug":"current-account-records-over-1-1-billion-deficit-during-1st-half-of-fy26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/current-account-records-over-1-1-billion-deficit-during-1st-half-of-fy26\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Account records over $ 1.1 billion deficit during 1st half of FY26"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>KARACHI, Jan 19 (APP):Pakistan\u2019s External Current Account Balance recorded a deficit of US$ 1,174 million during the first half of fiscal year 2025-26 in comparison to a surplus of $957 million during July-December 2024-25.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Current Account Balance, in the month of December 2025, recorded a deficit of $ 244 million compared to a surplus of<\/div>\n<div>$ 98 million in November 2025 and $ 454 million surplus in December 2024, the State Bank of Pakistan reported on Monday in the monthly summary of Balance of Payments.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The cumulative balance in trade of goods during July-December 2025-26, according to the provisional figures released by the central bank, recorded a deficit of $ 15,818 million as compared to $ 11,583 million deficit in corresponding period of FY24-25.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The balance on Trade in goods during December 2025 was recorded as $ 2,986 million as compared to a deficit of $ 2,439 million in November 2025 and $ 1,784 million in December 2024, the data depicted.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Balance on trade of services in the first half of FY26 has recorded a deficit of $ 1,738 million as compared to $ 1,530<\/div>\n<div>million deficit of July-December FY25, the data shown adding that in December 2025 services\u2019 trade deficit was recorded as $ 370 million as compared to $ 168 million deficit in November 2025 and $ 250 million deficit during December 2024.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The overall trade deficit in both goods and services reached at $ 17,556 million during Jul-Dec FY26 in comparison to the deficit of $ 13,113 million in the first 6 months of the previous fiscal year. In December 2025, the overall deficit in trade of goods and services was recorded as $ 3,356 million as compared to the deficit of $ 2,607 million in November 2025 and the deficit of $ 2,034 million during December 2024.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Balance on Primary Income recorded a deficit of $ 4,617 million during July-December FY26 against a deficit of $ 4,769 million in the corresponding months of last fiscal year, the SBP data showed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The inflow of workers\u2019 remittances from overseas during the first half of FY26, has recorded as $ 19,733 million in comparison to $ 17,847 million inflows in corresponding period of FY25.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Meanwhile, the Balance on Secondary Income during July-December FY26 has recorded a surplus of $ 20,999 million as compared to a surplus of $ 18,839 million in the first six months of the previous fiscal year, the SBP data showed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI, Jan 19 (APP):Pakistan\u2019s External Current Account Balance recorded a deficit of US$ 1,174 million during the first half of fiscal year 2025-26 in comparison to a surplus of $957 million during July-December 2024-25. Current Account Balance, in the month of December 2025, recorded a deficit of $ 244 million compared to a surplus of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1148424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[4695,4696],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1148423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-current-account-records","tag-deficit","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1148424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148423"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1148423"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1148423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}