This study explores the electricity access to rural and urban populations and its impact on the economic growth in Pakistan. An autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach was applied, and a co-integration test was used to investigate the dynamic causality relationships between the study variables. By using this testing approach, this study filled the literature gap regarding the access of rural and urban population to electricity in Pakistan. The tests shed light on the long-run relationship among the variables, whereas the results revealed that the access of both rural and urban populations to electricity had a positive and significant effect on economic growth. According to these findings, we can conclude that Pakistan should pay further attention to increasing its electricity production from different sources, including not only hydroelectric, solar, wind, oil, gas, and biomass but also fewer and fewer nuclear sources, in order to fulfill the country’s demands on its way to a future of sustainable development.

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对城乡人口电力供应的实证分析：来自巴基斯坦的证据

这项研究探讨了农村和城市人口的电力供应及其对巴基斯坦经济增长的影响。应用自回归分布滞后（ARDL）边界检验方法，并使用协整检验来研究研究变量之间的动态因果关系。通过使用这种测试方法，本研究填补了有关巴基斯坦农村和城市人口获得电力的文献空白。这些测试揭示了变量之间的长期关系，而结果表明，农村和城市人口的电力供应对经济增长产生了积极而显着的影响。根据这些发现，我们可以得出结论，巴基斯坦应进一步关注增加其不同来源的电力生产，