IranandPakistan

550 BCE · 14 August 1947

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

Iran

550 BCE — Cyrus the Great founds the Achaemenid Empire

Dossier →Chronicle →

Pakistan

14 August 1947 — The Dominion of Pakistan emerges from the partition of British India

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
43
Domains
9
Crossed events
1
Data through
2026-08-14

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Economy

IRNPAK
  • GDP
    $363 B2025$407 B2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $3,9242025$1,5962025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    -2.8%20253.7%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    42.2%20253.5%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    60.2%202527.2%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Society

IRNPAK
  • Population
    92 m2025255 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    77.9 yrs202467.8 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    77.4%202539.5%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    1.720243.52024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

IRNPAK

Health

IRNPAK
  • Health spending
    6.0%20232.5%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    1.8120231.162021
    Observed 2023 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    11.3202456.02024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    99.0%202486.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Safe drinking water
    94.4%202445.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

IRNPAK
  • Adult literacy
    88.9%202358.9%2021
    Observed 2023 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Education spending
    2.8%20231.9%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Primary enrolment
    102.0%202383.7%2024
    Observed 2023 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Secondary enrolment
    85.1%202348.3%2024
    Observed 2023 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Tertiary enrolment
    58.7%202210.9%2024
    Observed 2022 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Technology

IRNPAK
  • R&D spending
    0.7%20210.2%2023
    Observed 2021 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    2,24020214742023
    Observed 2021 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Internet users
    85.3%202457.3%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    1742024772024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    0.8%20222.4%2024
    Observed 2022 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

IRNPAK
  • Land area
    1,622,500 km²2023770,880 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    6.6%20234.7%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    29.0%202346.7%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    9.120240.82024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    0.9%202141.6%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

IRNPAK
  • Resource rents
    30.4%20211.4%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    18.3%20210.4%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    3.4%20210.1%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    0.0%20210.1%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    100.0%202495.7%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Iron ore
    93 Mt2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded

Military

IRNPAK
  • Military burden
    2.0%20242.7%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $7.9 B2024$10 B2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    650,0002020943,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. c. 518 BCE

    Achaemenid Persia annexes the Indus lands

    The Persian empire incorporates the Indus region as among its wealthiest provinces, bringing centralised administration and Aramaic writing to the area.

    Colonisation · from the Pakistan chronicle · Gandhara and the Ancient Empires · REFS 2 — Pakistan: A Country Study, Taxila