Thousands of capable residents have left the country as a result of the country’s political turmoil and economic problems.
In 2022, 765,000 people left the country in search of a better life, a 300 percent increase from the year before, according to the Bureau of Immigration.
This year’s report featured 92,000 accountants, engineers, doctors, and IT specialists.
Pakistan’s future is bleak due to political unrest and an economic downturn.
765,000 young medical professionals, engineers, IT specialists, accountants, and paramedics left Pakistan in 2022. The UAE and Saudi Arabia received the majority.
A bureau official claims that the factors driving the youth brain drain are rising inflation, unemployment, and political unrest.
Pakistan lost 7,000 engineers, 25,000 medical professionals, 1,600 nurses, 2,000 IT expertise, 6,500 accountants, 2,600 agriculture specialists, and 9,000 teachers this year.
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Malaysia, China, Japan, Turkey, Sudan, Romania, the UK, Spain, Germany, Greece, and Italy were this year’s top picks according to Pakistani experts.
Nearly 40,000 children visited Europe and Asia, while over 730,000 children visited the Gulf States. Additionally, 470,000 Pakistanis looked for work in Saudi Arabia, 119,000 in the United Arab Emirates, 77,000 in Oman, 51.634 in Qatar, and 2,000 in Kuwait.
Additionally, 2,000 Pakistanis travelled to Iraq, 5,000 to Malaysia, 602 to China, 815 to Japan, and 136 to Turkey, per the official data. The documents also showed that 478 Pakistanis travelled to Sudan in quest of work.
Punjab accounted for more than half of those who departed the nation. According to the data, Punjab accounted for 424,000 of the immigrants this year, followed by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (206,000), Sindh (54,000), Azad Kashmir (27,000), Balochistan (7,000), and Islamabad (6,000).
