Sneha Roychowdhury Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Corresponding Author’s Email: s.roychowdhury@sheffield.ac.uk Socio-Economic Inequality and Sustainability of Emerging Economies of South Asia ABSTRACT Introduction: Sri Lanka's economic jeopardy, Pakistan's devastating floods, a global disaster in terms of growth, economic slowdown, terrorist outbursts in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, religious and political turmoil, social challenges, and many more such incidents and facts have made South Asia vulnerable to an unprecedented combination of shocks and distresses. Scars of the COVID-19 pandemic have slowed down growth adding fire to the fuel. Inflation in South Asia, elevation in food and energy prices, trade restrictions, food insecurity in the region, gender inequality, inequitable growth and distribution, unplanned migration amounting to an unprecedented burden on the informal sector, etc. all demand the building of stronger fiscal and monetary policy buffers for strengthening resilience for the sake of South Asian people. Methodology: R programming language and grammar of graphics have been used to draw an exploratory overview about the sustainability of emerging economies of South Asia with respect to their socio-economic profiles. World development indicators (WDI), OECD national accounts data files, the ILOSTAT database, and the Global Terrorism Database have been used as data sources. Results and Discussion: Data visualization has been used to explore the socio-economic inequality of the emerging nations of South Asia. Maps, Time Series plots, Pie charts, Clustered bar charts have been used to help policymakers plan sustainable enterprises for resilience. Conclusion: Policies adopted by these nations towards 'Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization' since the early nineties have witnessed glaring inequalities instead of harnessing the benefits of globalization. India, the largest democracy, reports tremendous social unrest, followed by Pakistan and Sri Lanka, creating a hindrance to their sustainable growth. This is increasing due to dissatisfaction caused by the fall in GDP and consequent income and gender inequality, making the system unable to respond to the causes of good governance. Keywords: Socio-Economic Inequality, Gross Domestic Product, World Development Indicators Sustainable Entrepreneurship 59 Introduction 'South Asian Economies Bounce Back but Face Fragile Recovery'- this was how the World Bank reacted to the question of prospects the economic growth of South Asia doi: 10.31674/book.2022se.009