Every figure here is a person.

25.1 million

children aged 5–16 are out of school in Pakistan — 35% of that age group, the second-highest number in the world.

9.7 million

of those out-of-school children are in Punjab alone — the largest number of any province.

52.8%

female literacy in Pakistan, against 68% for men — the gap our girls’ schooling is built to close.

~47%

of Pakistanis have access to safe drinking water. The UN puts it plainly: it is unavailable to nearly half the country.

267 of 433

water samples tested across 29 Pakistani cities came back unsafe — 62%. The leading cause is bacteriological, then arsenic.

50–60 million

people on the Indus Plain draw groundwater likely to exceed the WHO arsenic limit — eastern Punjab, including Lahore, is worst affected.

~27,000

children die every year in Pakistan from diarrhoeal disease linked to unsafe water.

~2.35 million

people live in modern slavery in Pakistan — the fourth-highest absolute number in the world.

1 million+

men, women and children work in roughly 10,000 brick kilns in Punjab alone.

1992

the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act outlawed bondage and extinguished every peshgi debt. Three decades on, the kilns are still full.

8.5 million tonnes

of rice residue is produced in Punjab every year — and between 3.6 and 5 million tonnes of it is burnt, because clearing a field costs a farmer about 34% more than a match.

102.1 µg/m³

Lahore’s annual average PM2.5 — over twenty times the WHO guideline, and the second-worst of any major city on earth.

~7 years

of life expectancy lost by the average resident of Lahore to particulate air pollution.

5,389 mmcfd

the gas demand–supply gap Pakistan’s regulator projects by 2029–30. Indigenous production has been falling since 2012.

36 million tonnes

of food is wasted in Pakistan every year — roughly 40% of all food produced.

5,360

domestic biogas plants actually delivered in Punjab against a programme target of 300,000. We are not the first to promise this — which is why we lead with the farmer’s economics, not the technology.