Richest city in Pakistan by GDP per capita?

[v9s]

Yes on GDP they are big cities ..

but question is related to Per capita ...

Divide the GDP of the respective city with its population.

 

[Archie]

Most likely Islamabad or Karachi
Islamabad coz its the capital, most politicians would live their and they tend to be rich.
Karachi, maybe coz its the financial center and home to 25% of Pakistani tax payers

 

[Bouncer]

Has to be Islamabad. Low population and a high standard of living. Plus lots of corporate head offices are here, which means that revenues of these companies are recorded here.

And people complaining that Islamabad is not for poor people. Of course its not! The poor people of Islamabad (read sectors like I-9) are rich now because of property values and the peace this city provides. All of Islamabad has to smaller that all of Bahria town (all over Pakistan). Does anyone ever complain that Bahria town is for rich people only? Dumbasses.

 

[Faiez]

All I am saying is gdp per capita is better in those areas where concentration of overseas Pakistanis is more. Overseas Pakistanis sends remittance to their kith and kin and they reinvest in Pakistan . For example the area I live in Gujrat, I heard 30 years ago most of the people were poor except few families and now I don't remember a single house in my neighbourhood of 50 families whose son or daughter is not abroad. Most of them are in UK, Italy and Saudi Arabia and for example my neighbours next door were quite poor and I heard they even used to accept "zakat" and now after the fortunes changed they own like 10 shops, 5 houses and several franchises in my city, all thanks to foreign funded money sent by their family members from UK and Japan.

It is true for most of the overseas Pakistani families, If you visit Mirpur you will see massive mansionette, bungalow and large houses owned by overseas Pakistanis and many of them claims to own different businesses in Pakistan. Even the richest Pakistani Sir Anwar Parvez is residing in UK since 1960s but he owns several businesses in Pakistan including cement and banking sector.

Such thing do factor in GDP per capita as the actual money is invested and net profits earned inside Pakistan.

You have a point. It should have an indirect influence on the local economy........

 

[Raheel Khan_1]

Human development index by districts. Might give a vague idea about per capita or income.

 

[My-Analogous]

Lahore population is more than 10 million and Faisalabad is also between 7 to 8 million

Karachi is also 25M but these are official figure from the source.