Just looked into Pakistan's currency history and honestly it's pretty wild. Back when the country was founded in 1947, the dollar rate in Pakistan was locked at 3.31 PKR for like 8 years straight. Barely moved. Then things started shifting in the mid-50s, creeping up to around 4.76 PKR and staying there for another decade.

But here's where it gets interesting - from the 70s onwards, the rupee started getting hit harder. By the late 70s and 80s it was hovering around 10 PKR per dollar. Then the 90s happened and the depreciation really kicked in. You can see it accelerating - 1990 was 21 PKR, by 2000 it jumped to 51 PKR. That's a massive shift in just one decade.

The 2000s brought more pressure, and then 2008 financial crisis pushed it to 81 PKR. Fast forward to recent years and it's gotten brutal - 2019 hit 163 PKR, then 240 PKR by 2022. Last year it was around 286 PKR per dollar. The currency's basically lost 86x its value since independence. Wild to see how much economic pressure can compound over decades.