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Pakistan Footwear Industry is Rising at the Rate of 15.86% /year (highest in the world)

According to the World Footwear 2019 Yearbook (AVAILABLE HERE), in 2018, Pakistan’s international trade reversed the trends from recent years with exports growing and imports decreasing. Pakistan was the 8th largest producer of footwear with 411 million pairs and a world share of 1.7%. With a population of 201 million people, Pakistan was also the 8th largest consumer of footwear.

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Global Footwear Industry and Pakistan: History and Significance of Rising Markets

Footwear Industry has been growing since the earliest human history, archaeological finds of complete shoes date back to the Chalcolithic (ca. 5.000 BCE). Some ancient civilizations, such as Egypt and Greece however saw no practical need for footwear due to convenient climatic and landscape situations and used shoes primarily as ornaments and insignia of power.