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Islamabad
overall rank:
26
1998 rank:
24
country:
Pakistan
population:
810,000
snapshot: Islamabad at a glance |
rank |
overall score |
48 |
26 |
average income US$ |
7,665.11 |
19 |
educational spending 1 |
93.94 |
25 |
ratio of house price to income 2 |
58.82 |
29 |
hospital beds per 1000 people |
2.0 |
24 |
pollution 3 |
193 |
25 |
vehicles per km of road |
230 |
23 |
criminal cases per 10,000 |
0.2 |
1 |
TV sets per 1,000 people |
100 |
30 |
inflation |
9 |
- |
GDP growth |
3.1 |
25 |
unemployment rate |
12.00 |
35 |
average class size |
40.0 |
24 |
life expectancy |
64.0 |
30.0 |
commute time |
20 |
2 |
phones per 1,000 people |
55 |
33 |
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notes:
All monetary values are PPP adjusted
a estimates
b national figure
c officially, land cannot be bought or sold
1 state educational spending, per capita US$
2 average house price divided by average annual income
3 suspended particles, micrograms per cubic meter (µ/m3)
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