In the first five months of 2023 (January to May), local manufacturing plants made 4.88 million mobile handsets, while only 0.41 million were imported. In May 2023, local manufacturing plants produced 1.44 million mobile handsets, while only 0.11 million were imported.
Four million 2G and 0.8 million smartphone handsets were among the 4.88 million locally produced/assembled mobile phones. In May 2023, Pakistan imported a lot more mobile phones compared to the previous month. The imports increased by 308 percent, reaching a value of $43.201 million. In April 2023, the imports were only $10.587 million. This information was provided by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).
In May 2023, the number of mobile phone imports decreased by 68.52 percent compared to May 2022, when the value was $137.212 million. From July to May 2023, the total imports of telecom products in the country were worth $860.441 million. This showed a negative growth rate of 66.87 percent compared to the same period in the previous fiscal year, which had imports worth $2.597 billion.
