Back التركيبة السكانية في باكستان Arabic Насельніцтва Пакістана Byelorussian Население на Пакистан Bulgarian ޕާކިސްތާނުގެ ޑެމޮގްރަފީ DV Demografía de Pakistán Spanish جمعیتشناسی پاکستان Persian Démographie du Pakistan French पाकिस्तान की जनसांख्यिकी Hindi 파키스탄의 인구 Korean Pakistano demografija Lithuanian
| Demographics of Pakistan | |
|---|---|
 Population pyramid of Pakistan as of July 1, 2021 | |
| Population | 241,499,431[a] (2023 census) |
| Density | 260.8/km2 (675/sq mi) 248.9/km2 (645/sq mi) (including AJK and GB) |
| Growth rate |  1.85% (2021 est.)[3] |
| Birth rate | 22.5 births / 1,000 population (2023 est.) |
| Death rate | 7.2 deaths / 1,000 population (2021 est.)[3] |
| Life expectancy | 69.1 years (2022 est.)[3] |
| • male | 66.8 years (2022 est.)[3] |
| • female | 71.6 years (2022 est.)[3] |
| Fertility rate | 3.32 children born / woman (2024 est.)[3] |
| Net migration rate | −2.0 migrants / 1,000 population (2021 est.)[3] |
| Age structure | |
| 0–14 years | 37.2% (2020)[4] |
| 15–64 years | 58.6% (2020)[4] |
| 65 and over | 4.2% (2020)[4] |
| Nationality | |
| Nationality | noun: Pakistani |
| Major ethnic | See Ethnic groups of Pakistan |
| Language | |
| Spoken | See Languages of Pakistan |
Pakistan had a population of 241,499,431 according to the final results of the 2023 census.[5] This figure includes the country's four provinces e.g. Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and the Islamabad Capital Territory. Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan's census data is yet to be approved by CCI Council of Pakistan. Pakistan is the world's fifth–most populous country.[4]
Between 1951 and 2023, Pakistan's population expanded over sevenfold, going from 33.7 million to 241.5 million. The country has a relatively high, although declining, growth rate supported by high birth rates and low death rates. Between 1998 and 2017, the average annual population growth rate stood at +2.40%.[6]
Dramatic social changes have led to urbanization and the emergence of two megacities: Karachi and Lahore. The country's urban population more than tripled between 1981 and 2017 (from 23.8 million to 75.7 million), as Pakistan's urbanisation rate rose from 28.2% to 36.4%. Even with this, the nation's urbanisation rate remains one of the lowest in the world, and in 2017, over 130 million Pakistanis (making up nearly 65% of the population) lived in rural areas.
Due to a high fertility rate, which was estimated at 3.5 in 2022, Pakistan has one of the world's youngest populations. The 2017 census recorded that 40.3% of the country's population was under the age of 15, while only 3.7% of Pakistanis were aged 65 or more.[7] The median age of the country was 19,[7] while its sex ratio was recorded to be 105 males per 100 females.[8]
The demographic history of Pakistan from the ancient Indus Valley civilization to the modern era includes the arrival and settlement of many cultures and ethnic groups in the modern region of Pakistan from Eurasia and the nearby Middle East. Because of this, Pakistan has a multicultural, multilinguistic, and multiethnic society. Pakistan is also thought to have the world's fourth-largest refugee population, estimated at 1.4 million in mid-2021 by the UNHCR.[9]
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- ^ Riazul Haq and Shahbaz Rana (27 May 2018). "Headcount finalised sans third-party audit". Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ a b "Table 4 – Population by Single Year Age, Sex and Rural/Urban" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2021. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
- ^ "Table – 1 Area, Population By Sex, Sex Ratio, Population Density, Urban Proportion, Household Size and Annual Growth Rate" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 19 May 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
- ^ "Refugee Data Finder". UNHCR – Refugee Statistics. UNHCR. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
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