{"id":3634,"date":"2025-06-20T16:40:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T11:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:15:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T09:15:51","slug":"pakistans-education-spending-hits-alarming-low-despite-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/06\/20\/pakistans-education-spending-hits-alarming-low-despite-crisis","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s Education Spending Hits Alarming Low Despite Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan&#8217;s education expenditure has plummeted to a historic low of 0.8% of GDP, despite 26 million children being out of school &#8211; one of the world&#8217;s worst enrollment rates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">New data reveals a shocking 29% reduction in education spending since July 2024, contradicting Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif&#8217;s declared &#8220;education emergency&#8221; and international commitments.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Broken Promises, Shattered Futures<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The latest Pakistan Economic Survey shows consistent decline from 2% GDP allocation in 2018 to the current 0.8% &#8211; far below the UN-recommended 4-6% benchmark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Save the Children&#8217;s alarming report highlights how Balochistan suffers most severely, with 75% of girls deprived of education entirely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Climate disasters compound the crisis, as heatwaves and floods repeatedly force school closures, disrupting learning for millions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The funding shortfall threatens to increase child labor and early marriages, with existing data showing 10% of 10-14 year-olds working.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>A Nation Risking Its Future<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Country Director Khuram Gondal warns these cuts represent more than budget adjustments &#8211; they&#8217;re a betrayal of Pakistan&#8217;s youth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Marginalized communities face the harshest impact, with existing educational disparities worsening dramatically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The government&#8217;s 2029 target of 4% GDP allocation appears increasingly unrealistic as current trends move opposite direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">International donors must intervene urgently to prevent generational damage to Pakistan&#8217;s human capital development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan&#8217;s education expenditure has plummeted to a historic low of 0.8% of GDP, despite 26 million children being out of school &#8211; one of the world&#8217;s worst enrollment rates. New data reveals a shocking 29% reduction in education spending since July 2024, contradicting Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif&#8217;s declared &#8220;education emergency&#8221; and international commitments. Broken &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1573,1521,1367],"class_list":["post-3634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-crisis","tag-education","tag-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3636,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions\/3636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}