During the first eleven months of the current fiscal year (2021–22), compared to the same period the previous year, the imports of the entire petroleum group increased by 99.14%.
According to the most recent data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, the overall imports of the petroleum group for the review period were $19.679 billion, compared to imports of $9.882 billion the previous year.
When compared to the previous year, the import of petroleum products increased by 126.17 percent, from $4.431 billion to $10.022 billion.
Between July and May of 2021–22, petroleum crude imports rose by 74.70 percent, from $2.724 billion the previous year to $5.7591 billion, while liquefied natural gas imports jumped by 86.29 percent, from $2.302 billion to $4.289 billion.
Liquefied petroleum gas imports increased by 43.50 percent, from $422.917 million to $606.892 million.
