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.infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above">2017 Census of Pakistan</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="line-height:130%;"><hr /> <table style="width:100%; margin:1px; display:inline-table;"><tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0 0.5em 0 0;" class="noprint">← <a href="/wiki/1998_Pakistani_census" title="1998 Pakistani census">1998</a></td> <td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;; padding:0 1px;" class=""><b>15 March 2017<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2017-03-15</span>)</span> to 25 May 2017<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend itvend">2017-05-25</span>)</span></b></td> <td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:middle;; padding:0 0 0 0.5em;" class="noprint"><a href="/wiki/2023_Pakistani_census" title="2023 Pakistani census">2023</a> →</td> </tr></tbody></table> <hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:2017_Pakistan_Census_logo.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/2017_Pakistan_Census_logo.png" decoding="async" width="184" height="188" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="184" data-file-height="188" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align: center; background-color: #efefef; margin: 0.1em; padding: 0.05em 0;">General information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">Pakistan</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Topics</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>Census topics</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> People and population </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Families and living arrangements </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Language </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Religion </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Housing </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Authority</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Bureau_of_Statistics" title="Pakistan Bureau of Statistics">Pakistan Bureau of Statistics</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pbs.gov.pk/">www<wbr />.pbs<wbr />.gov<wbr />.pk</a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align: center; background-color: #efefef; margin: 0.1em; padding: 0.05em 0;">Results</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Total population</th><td class="infobox-data">213,222,917 (<span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 56.5%)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Most<span class="nowrap"> </span>populous<span class="nowrap"> </span><wbr />province</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Punjab,_Pakistan" title="Punjab, Pakistan">Punjab</a> (109,989,655)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Least<span class="nowrap"> </span>populous<span class="nowrap"> </span><wbr />province</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Gilgit-Baltistan" title="Gilgit-Baltistan">Gilgit-Baltistan</a> (1,492,924)</span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>2017 Census of Pakistan</b> was a detailed enumeration of the <a href="/wiki/Pakistanis" title="Pakistanis">Pakistani population</a> which began on 15 March 2017 and ended on 25 May 2017. It was the first census taken in the country in the 21st century, nineteen years after the <a href="/wiki/1998_Pakistani_census" title="1998 Pakistani census">previous one in 1998</a>, and it was carried out by the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Bureau_of_Statistics" title="Pakistan Bureau of Statistics">Pakistan Bureau of Statistics</a>. </p><p>The census recorded a total population throughout the country of 213,222,917.<sup id="cite_ref-totalpop_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-totalpop-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The results showed a massive population increase having occurred between 1998 and 2017 of 77.0 million people, or an increase of +56.5%.<sup id="cite_ref-pop1998_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pop1998-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The results also marked a significantly higher result compared to estimations made of the Pakistani population before the census, which had previously estimated the Pakistani population in 2017 to be between 195 million and 200 million.<sup id="cite_ref-OriginalGovPopProjection_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OriginalGovPopProjection-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-OriginalUNPopProjection_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OriginalUNPopProjection-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/2023_Pakistani_census#Background" title="2023 Pakistani census">Controversies regarding this census</a>, focused around the populations of Pakistan's largest city, <a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a> and the province of <a href="/wiki/Sindh" title="Sindh">Sindh</a>, resulted in another census <a href="/wiki/2023_Pakistani_census" title="2023 Pakistani census">being scheduled early in the year 2023</a>. The results of that census will be used to delimitate constituencies for the <a href="/wiki/2023_Pakistani_general_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Pakistani general election">2023 Pakistani general election</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Design">Design</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2017_Pakistani_census&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Design"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Phases_of_2017_Pakistani_Census.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Phases_of_2017_Pakistani_Census.svg/260px-Phases_of_2017_Pakistani_Census.svg.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="247" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Phases_of_2017_Pakistani_Census.svg/390px-Phases_of_2017_Pakistani_Census.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Phases_of_2017_Pakistani_Census.svg/520px-Phases_of_2017_Pakistani_Census.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1628" data-file-height="1544" /></a><figcaption><div style="text-align: center">Distribution of the phases of the Census</div></figcaption></figure> <p>The 2017 Census of Pakistan was conducted by over 110,000 civilian staff along with security provided by over 200,000 personnel from the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Army" title="Pakistan Army">Pakistan Army</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ArmySupport_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ArmySupport-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its budget was 18.5 Billion <a href="/wiki/Pakistani_Rupees" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistani Rupees">Pakistani Rupees</a>, of which 6.0 Billion went to the armed forces, 6.5 billion was assigned for transportation and other related expenses, and 6.0 Billion was spent on training and re-enumeration.<sup id="cite_ref-NationalReport_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NationalReport-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many questions were asked of each individual, most importantly: age, sex, marital status, religion, mother tongue, nationality, educational attainment, literacy, and employment status. Data was also collected regarding every single household in the country, such as the tenure, the building material, the year of construction, the source of water, and the source of light.<sup id="cite_ref-Questionnaire_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Questionnaire-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It also was conducted in 2 phases. The first phase lasted from 15 March 2017 to 13 April 2017 and covered 53 districts of the country. The second phase began on 25 April 2017 and lasted until 24 May 2017 covering the remaining 88 districts. However, the census in the <a href="/wiki/Islamabad_Capital_Territory" title="Islamabad Capital Territory">Islamabad Capital Territory</a> and neighbouring districts of <a href="/wiki/Attock_District" title="Attock District">Attock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rawalpindi_District" title="Rawalpindi District">Rawalpindi</a>, although included in the second phase, began on 30 March 2017 and concluded on 23 May 2017. Furthermore, for administrative purposes, the census in the <a href="/wiki/Kech_District" title="Kech District">Kech District</a> of <a href="/wiki/Balochistan" title="Balochistan">Balochistan</a> was spread over both phases.<sup id="cite_ref-distribution_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-distribution-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In certain, "snowbound" areas of <a href="/wiki/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</a>, the enumeration took place in June 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-NationalReport_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NationalReport-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Results">Results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2017_Pakistani_census&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Population_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Population_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/350px-Population_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Population_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/525px-Population_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Population_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/700px-Population_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption> <div style="text-align: center">Population of each Pakistani District as of the 2017 Pakistan Census</div></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Population_Density_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Population_Density_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/350px-Population_Density_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Population_Density_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/525px-Population_Density_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Population_Density_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/700px-Population_Density_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption> <div style="text-align: center">Population Density per square kilometre of each Pakistani District as of the 2017 Pakistan Census</div></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Annual_population_growth_rate_by_Pakistani_District.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Annual_population_growth_rate_by_Pakistani_District.svg/350px-Annual_population_growth_rate_by_Pakistani_District.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Annual_population_growth_rate_by_Pakistani_District.svg/525px-Annual_population_growth_rate_by_Pakistani_District.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Annual_population_growth_rate_by_Pakistani_District.svg/700px-Annual_population_growth_rate_by_Pakistani_District.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption> <div style="text-align: center">Average Annual Population Growth Rate in each Pakistani District between 1998 and 2017 according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics</div></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Median_Age_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Median_Age_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/350px-Median_Age_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Median_Age_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/525px-Median_Age_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Median_Age_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/700px-Median_Age_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption> <div style="text-align: center">Median Age of each Pakistani District as of the 2017 Pakistan Census</div></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Literacy_Rate_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Literacy_Rate_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/350px-Literacy_Rate_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Literacy_Rate_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/525px-Literacy_Rate_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Literacy_Rate_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/700px-Literacy_Rate_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption> <div style="text-align: center"> Literacy Rate in each Pakistani District as of the 2017 Pakistan Census</div></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sex_Ratio_by_Pakistani_District.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Sex_Ratio_by_Pakistani_District.svg/350px-Sex_Ratio_by_Pakistani_District.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Sex_Ratio_by_Pakistani_District.svg/525px-Sex_Ratio_by_Pakistani_District.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Sex_Ratio_by_Pakistani_District.svg/700px-Sex_Ratio_by_Pakistani_District.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption> <div style="text-align: center"> Sex Ratio of each Pakistani District as of the 2017 Pakistan Census</div></figcaption></figure> <p>While basic provisional results of the 2017 Census of Pakistan were released in late 2017 and early 2018, the final results of the census were publicly released throughout the spring and summer of 2021,<sup id="cite_ref-FinalResults_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FinalResults-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FinalTables_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FinalTables-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FinalDistrictTables_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FinalDistrictTables-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and they showed that in 2017, Pakistan had 213.2 Million residents.<sup id="cite_ref-totalpop_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-totalpop-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Data for <a href="/wiki/Azad_Kashmir" title="Azad Kashmir">Azad Kashmir</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gilgit-Baltistan" title="Gilgit-Baltistan">Gilgit-Baltistan</a> was disseminated separately by the territories' own statistical agencies.<sup id="cite_ref-AJKPop_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AJKPop-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GBPop_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GBPop-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Administrative Unit </th> <th>Population (1998) </th> <th>Population (2017) </th> <th>Percent Growth </th> <th>Annualized Growth </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Khyber_Pakthunkhwa" class="mw-redirect" title="Khyber Pakthunkhwa">Khyber Pakthunkhwa</a> </td> <td>17,743,645 </td> <td>30,508,920 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 71.9% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 2.89% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Federally_Administered_Tribal_Areas" title="Federally Administered Tribal Areas">FATA</a><sup id="cite_ref-FATA_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FATA-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>3,176,331 </td> <td>4,993,044 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 57.2% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 2.40% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Punjab,_Pakistan" title="Punjab, Pakistan">Punjab</a> </td> <td>73,621,290 </td> <td>109,989,655 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 49.4% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 2.13% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sindh" title="Sindh">Sindh</a> </td> <td>30,439,893 </td> <td>47,854,510 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 57.2% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 2.41% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Balochistan,_Pakistan" title="Balochistan, Pakistan">Balochistan</a> </td> <td>6,565,855 </td> <td>12,335,129 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 87.9% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3.37% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Islamabad_Capital_Territory" title="Islamabad Capital Territory">ICT</a> </td> <td>805,235 </td> <td>2,003,368 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 148.8% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 4.90% </td></tr> <tr style="background:#f5f5d3"> <td><a href="/wiki/Azad_Kashmir" title="Azad Kashmir">Azad Kashmir</a> </td> <td>2,972,501 </td> <td>4,045,367 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 36.1% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1.63% </td></tr> <tr style="background:#f5f5d3"> <td><a href="/wiki/Gilgit-Baltistan" title="Gilgit-Baltistan">Gilgit-Baltistan</a> </td> <td>884,000 </td> <td>1,492,924 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 68.9% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 2.79% </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>Four provinces and ICT</b> </th> <th>132,352,279 </th> <th>207,684,626 </th> <th><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 56.9% </th> <th><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 2.40% </th></tr> <tr> <th><b>Total Pakistan</b> </th> <th>136,208,780 </th> <th>213,222,917 </th> <th><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 56.5% </th> <th><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 2.38% </th></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Population By Gender </caption> <tbody><tr> <td rowspan="4" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top;"><b>Population</b> </td> <td align="left">Total </td> <td align="right">207,684,626 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left">Males </td> <td align="right">106,018,220 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left">Females </td> <td align="right">101,344,632 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left">Transgender </td> <td align="right">21,744 </td></tr></tbody></table> <style 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There is more info on <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334940" class="extiw" title="phab:T334940">Phabricator</a> and on <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Plans" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:Graph/Plans">MediaWiki.org</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="City">City</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2017_Pakistani_census&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: City"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The population of 10 major cities of the country has increased by 74.4 percent since 1998, when the last census was conducted, according to the data of recently concluded 6th Population and Housing Census 2017. </p><p>The total population of the 10 cities surged to 40,956,232 individuals as per the 2017 census from 23,475,067 registered during the 1998 census, the data revealed.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Rank </th> <th>City </th> <th>Population (1998 census) </th> <th>Population (2017 census) </th> <th>Population (2022 Estimation) </th> <th>Change of Growth </th> <th>Province </th></tr> <tr> <th>1 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a> </td> <td>9,856,318 </td> <td>16,051,521 <sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>21,980,000 </td> <td>62.86% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sindh" title="Sindh">Sindh</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a> </td> <td>5,143,495 </td> <td>11,126,285  </td> <td>14,286,000 </td> <td>116.32% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Punjab,_Pakistan" title="Punjab, Pakistan">Punjab</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>3 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Faisalabad" title="Faisalabad">Faisalabad</a> </td> <td>2,008,861 </td> <td>3,203,846 </td> <td>3,400,700 </td> <td>59.49% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Punjab,_Pakistan" title="Punjab, Pakistan">Punjab</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>4 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Rawalpindi" title="Rawalpindi">Rawalpindi</a> </td> <td>1,409,768 </td> <td>2,098,231 </td> <td>2,900,000 </td> <td>48.84% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Punjab,_Pakistan" title="Punjab, Pakistan">Punjab</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>5 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Gujranwala" title="Gujranwala">Gujranwala</a> </td> <td>1,132,509 </td> <td>2,027,001 </td> <td>2,588,499 </td> <td>78.98% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Punjab,_Pakistan" title="Punjab, Pakistan">Punjab</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>6 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Peshawar" title="Peshawar">Peshawar</a> </td> <td>982,816 </td> <td>1,970,042 </td> <td>2,458,275 </td> <td>100.45% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>7 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Multan" title="Multan">Multan</a> </td> <td>1,197,384 </td> <td>1,871,843  </td> <td>1,986,000 </td> <td>56.33% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Punjab,_Pakistan" title="Punjab, Pakistan">Punjab</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>8 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Hyderabad,_Sindh" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyderabad, Sindh">Hyderabad</a> </td> <td>1,166,894 </td> <td>1,732,693 </td> <td>1,872,683 </td> <td>48.49% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sindh" title="Sindh">Sindh</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>9 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Islamabad" title="Islamabad">Islamabad</a> </td> <td>529,180 </td> <td>1,014,825 </td> <td>2,250,000 </td> <td>91.77% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Islamabad_Capital_Territory" title="Islamabad Capital Territory">Islamabad Capital Territory</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>10 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Quetta" title="Quetta">Quetta</a> </td> <td>565,137 </td> <td>1,001,205 </td> <td>1,105,000 </td> <td>77.16% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Balochistan_(Pakistan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Balochistan (Pakistan)">Balochistan</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Population_Pyramids">Population Pyramids</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2017_Pakistani_census&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Population Pyramids"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Population Pyramids of each Pakistani province and nationwide as of the 2017 Pakistan Census. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a 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href="/wiki/File:Population_Pyramid_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa_-_2017_Census.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Khyber Pakhtunkhwa"><img alt="Population Pyramid of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Population_Pyramid_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa_-_2017_Census.png/200px-Population_Pyramid_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa_-_2017_Census.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Population_Pyramid_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa_-_2017_Census.png/300px-Population_Pyramid_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa_-_2017_Census.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Population_Pyramid_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa_-_2017_Census.png/400px-Population_Pyramid_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa_-_2017_Census.png 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1080" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</a></div> </li> <li 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class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Punjab,_Pakistan" title="Punjab, Pakistan">Punjab, Pakistan</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Population_Pyramid_of_Sindh_-_2017_Census.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Sindh, Pakistan"><img alt="Population Pyramid of Sindh" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Population_Pyramid_of_Sindh_-_2017_Census.png/200px-Population_Pyramid_of_Sindh_-_2017_Census.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Population_Pyramid_of_Sindh_-_2017_Census.png/300px-Population_Pyramid_of_Sindh_-_2017_Census.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Population_Pyramid_of_Sindh_-_2017_Census.png/400px-Population_Pyramid_of_Sindh_-_2017_Census.png 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1080" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Sindh,_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Sindh, Pakistan">Sindh, Pakistan</a></div> </li> </ul></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversies">Controversies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2017_Pakistani_census&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Controversies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sindh_population">Sindh population</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2017_Pakistani_census&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Sindh population"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Sindh_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Sindh Assembly">Sindh Assembly</a> refused to accept the results of the 2017 census, stating that millions of people were shown with double addresses and counted in their home provinces despite living and working in Sindh.<sup id="cite_ref-sindh-assembly_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sindh-assembly-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In April 2018, <a href="/wiki/Syed_Mustafa_Kamal" title="Syed Mustafa Kamal">Mustafa Kamal</a>, chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Pak_Sarzameen_Party" title="Pak Sarzameen Party">Pak Sarzameen Party</a> and former <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Karachi" title="Mayor of Karachi">Mayor of Karachi</a>, challenged the results of the 2017 census in the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Pakistan" title="Supreme Court of Pakistan">Supreme Court</a>, seeking a third-party audit of the national census. Kamal pleaded that records from the <a href="/wiki/National_Database_and_Registration_Authority" title="National Database and Registration Authority">National Database and Registration Authority</a> (NADRA) showed the population of Karachi to be 20.15 million, rather than 16 million as shown in the census.<sup id="cite_ref-kamal-petition_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kamal-petition-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="FATA_population">FATA population</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2017_Pakistani_census&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: FATA population"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Shahab_Uddin_Khan" title="Shahab Uddin Khan">Shahab Uddin Khan</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Constituency_NA-41_(Tribal_Area-II)" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituency NA-41 (Tribal Area-II)">Member of the National Assembly</a> (MNA) from <a href="/wiki/Bajaur_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Bajaur Agency">Bajaur Agency</a>, has stated he believes that a large number of people displaced from the <a href="/wiki/Mamund_Tehsil" title="Mamund Tehsil">Mamund</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nawagai_Tehsil" title="Nawagai Tehsil">Nawagai</a> regions due to security operations have not been counted by the census. He has stated he intends to challenge the census in court. <a href="/wiki/Bismillah_Khan_(politician)" title="Bismillah Khan (politician)">Bismillah Khan</a>, an MNA from Bajaur Agency, has stated he believes the population of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas is double of what is reflected in the census. He added that he will take up the issue with the federal government along with other lawmakers. <a href="/wiki/Sajid_Hussain_Turi" title="Sajid Hussain Turi">Sajid Hussain Turi</a>, an MNA from <a href="/wiki/Khyber_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Khyber Agency">Khyber Agency</a>, claimed that more than three million people from FATA are living in other cities in the country due to military operations, and expressed concern that developmental work in the region could be underfunded if the population is underestimated by the census.<sup id="cite_ref-fata-lawmakers_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fata-lawmakers-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_opposition">Political opposition</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2017_Pakistani_census&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Political opposition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Syed_Khurshid_Ahmed_Shah" class="mw-redirect" title="Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah">Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">Pakistan Peoples Party</a> (PPP), Former Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, questioned the provisional census results. He issued a statement demanding that data collected by the statistics division should be compared to data from the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Army" title="Pakistan Army">Pakistan Army</a>. PPP leader <a href="/wiki/Nawab_Muhammad_Yousuf" class="mw-redirect" title="Nawab Muhammad Yousuf">Nawab Muhammad Yousuf</a> accused authorities of doctoring the results, alleging that the population of Sindh had been intentionally underestimated by at least 10 million and the population of Punjab had been overestimated by 10 million. He described the results as an attempt to usurp the rights of Sindh. PPP Senator <a href="/wiki/Mukhtiar_Ahmed_Dhamrah" title="Mukhtiar Ahmed Dhamrah">Mukhtiar Ahmed Dhamrah</a> disputed the population of Karachi and Lahore reported in the preliminary results.<sup id="cite_ref-opp-parties_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-opp-parties-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Bushra_Gohar" title="Bushra Gohar">Bushra Gohar</a>, leader of <a href="/wiki/Awami_National_Party" title="Awami National Party">Awami National Party</a> (ANP), pointed out in a tweet<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that the reported population of around 5 million for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas seems contradictory to the fact that there have been nearly 2 million <a href="/wiki/Internally_displaced_persons" class="mw-redirect" title="Internally displaced persons">internally displaced persons</a> registered from <a href="/wiki/North_Waziristan" class="mw-redirect" title="North Waziristan">North Waziristan</a> alone.<sup id="cite_ref-opp-parties_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-opp-parties-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Chief Census Commissioner Asif Bajwa rejected allegations that the census results had been manipulated and that the population of Karachi had been intentionally understated. He stated that the populations of Karachi and Lahore were counted as per the record of national identity cards and voter lists and that the census data had already been verified with statistics recorded by the army.<sup id="cite_ref-bajwa-response_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bajwa-response-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religious_demographics">Religious demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2017_Pakistani_census&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Religious demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Pakistan" title="Religion in Pakistan">Religion in Pakistan</a></div> <div class="PieChartTemplate thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px"> <div class="mw-no-invert" style="background-color:white;margin:auto;position:relative;width:200px;height:200px;overflow:hidden;border-radius:100px;border:1px solid black;transform:scaleX(-1)rotate(-90deg)"> <div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:0; top:0; border-width:0 200px 200px 0; border-color:Red; z-index:-1"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:100px; top:100px; border-width:100px 0 0 79577.429658068px; border-left-color:Black"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:Black"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 100px 200px 0;border-color:Black"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:100px; top:100px; border-width:100px 0 0 13262.66059596px; border-left-color:Dodgerblue"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:Dodgerblue"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 100px 200px 0;border-color:Dodgerblue"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:100px; top:100px; border-width:100px 0 0 1142.0868999465px; border-left-color:DarkOrange"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:DarkOrange"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 100px 200px 0;border-color:DarkOrange"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:100px; top:100px; border-width:100px 0 0 443.44628595889px; border-left-color:green"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:green"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 100px 200px 0;border-color:green"></div> </div> <div class="thumbcaption"> <p>Religion in Pakistan (2017 Official Census) </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:green; color:white;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Pakistan" title="Islam in Pakistan">Islam</a> (96.47%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:DarkOrange; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Hinduism_in_Pakistan" title="Hinduism in Pakistan">Hinduism</a> (2.14%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Dodgerblue; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Pakistan" title="Christianity in Pakistan">Christianity</a> (1.27%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Black; color:white;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Ahmadiyya_in_Pakistan" title="Ahmadiyya in Pakistan">Ahmadiyya</a> (0.1%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Red; color:black;"> </span> Other Religions (0.02%)</div> </div> </div></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Bureau_of_Statistics" title="Pakistan Bureau of Statistics">Pakistan Bureau of Statistics</a> released religious data of Pakistan Census 2017 on 19 May 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-pbk2021_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pbk2021-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 96.47% are Muslims, followed by 2.14% Hindus, 1.27% Christians, 0.09% Ahmadis and 0.02% others. </p><p>These are some maps of religious minority groups. The 2017 census showed an increasing share in <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a>, mainly caused by a higher birth rate among the impoverished Hindus of Sindh province. This census also recorded Pakistan's first Hindu-majority district, called <a href="/wiki/Umerkot_District" title="Umerkot District">Umerkot District</a>, where Muslims were previously the majority. </p><p>On the other hand, Christianity in Pakistan, while increasing in raw numbers, has fallen significantly in percentage terms since the last census. This is due to Pakistani Christians having a significantly lower fertility rate than Pakistani Muslims and Pakistani Hindus as well as them being concentrated in the most developed parts of Pakistan, <a href="/wiki/Lahore_District" title="Lahore District">Lahore District</a> (over 5% Christian), <a href="/wiki/Islamabad_Capital_Territory" title="Islamabad Capital Territory">Islamabad Capital Territory</a> (over 4% Christian), and Northern Punjab. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Ahmadiyya" title="Ahmadiyya">Ahmadiyya</a> movement shrunk in size (both raw numbers and percentage) between 1998 and 2017, while remaining concentrated in <a href="/wiki/Lalian_Tehsil" title="Lalian Tehsil">Lalian Tehsil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chiniot_District" title="Chiniot District">Chiniot District</a>, where approximately 13% of the population is Ahmadiyya. </p><p>Here are some maps of <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>'s religious minority groups as of the 2017 census by district: </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hindu_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Hindu_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/350px-Hindu_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Hindu_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/525px-Hindu_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Hindu_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/700px-Hindu_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption> <div style="text-align: center">Hindu Proportion of each Pakistani District in 2017 as of the 2017 Pakistan Census</div></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Christian_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Christian_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/350px-Christian_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Christian_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/525px-Christian_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Christian_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/700px-Christian_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption> <div style="text-align: center">Christian Proportion of each Pakistani District as of the 2017 Pakistan Census</div></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Qadiani_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Qadiani_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/350px-Qadiani_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Qadiani_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/525px-Qadiani_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Qadiani_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg/700px-Qadiani_Proportion_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption> <div style="text-align: center">Ahmadiyya Proportion of each Pakistani District as of the 2017 Pakistan Census</div></figcaption></figure> <p>Virtually all people not belonging to one of these minority groups were Sunni or Shia Muslim, with the most religiously homogeneous areas found in <a href="/wiki/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Language_demographics">Language demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2017_Pakistani_census&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Language demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Pakistan" title="Languages of Pakistan">Languages of Pakistan</a></div> <div class="PieChartTemplate thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" 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</div> <div class="thumbcaption"> <p>Languages of Pakistan (2017) </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Red; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Punjabi_language" title="Punjabi language">Punjabi</a> (38.78%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Yellow; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Pashto" title="Pashto">Pashto</a> (18.24%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Purple; color:white;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Sindhi_language" title="Sindhi language">Sindhi</a> (14.57%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Orange; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Saraiki_language" title="Saraiki language">Saraiki</a> (12.19%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Green; color:white;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Urdu" title="Urdu">Urdu</a> (7.08%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Blue; color:white;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Balochi_language" title="Balochi language">Balochi</a> (3.02%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Lime; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Hindko" title="Hindko">Hindko</a> (2.24%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Violet; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Brahui_language" title="Brahui language">Brahui</a> (1.24%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Black; color:white;"> </span> Others (2.65%)</div> </div> </div></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Bureau_of_Statistics" title="Pakistan Bureau of Statistics">Pakistan Bureau of Statistics</a> released language data of Pakistan Census 2017 on 19 May 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-pbk2021_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pbk2021-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 7.08% of the Pakistani people mentioned <a href="/wiki/Urdu" title="Urdu">Urdu</a> as their mother language, 38.78% Punjabi, 14.57% Sindhi, 18.24% Pashto, 3.02% Balochi, 0.17% Kashmiri, 12.19% Saraiki, 2.44% Hindko, 1.24% Brahui and 2.26% others. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Security_incidents">Security incidents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2017_Pakistani_census&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Security incidents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Khyber Pakhtunkhwa"><img alt="Khyber Pakhtunkhwa" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Flag_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa.svg/23px-Flag_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Flag_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa.svg/35px-Flag_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa.svg.png 1.5x, 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The aggressors were apprehended and their arms were confiscated.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Khyber Pakhtunkhwa"><img alt="Khyber Pakhtunkhwa" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Flag_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa.svg/23px-Flag_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Flag_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa.svg/35px-Flag_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Flag_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa.svg/45px-Flag_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="793" data-file-height="528" /></a></span></span> 25 March 2017 – a policeman deputed on census team's security in <a href="/wiki/Charsadda" title="Charsadda">Charsadda</a> was injured when he was fired at by an attacker. In retaliatory fire, the attacker was injured and arrested.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Punjab,_Pakistan" title="Punjab, Pakistan"><img alt="Punjab, Pakistan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_Punjab.svg/23px-Flag_of_Punjab.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_Punjab.svg/35px-Flag_of_Punjab.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_Punjab.svg/45px-Flag_of_Punjab.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="793" data-file-height="528" /></a></span></span> 5 April 2017 – a census team was targeted in a suicide attack on <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a>'s Bedian Road. 7 members of the team were slain – including two enumerators and 5 army personnel on security and reconnaissance duty.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Balochistan,_Pakistan" title="Balochistan, Pakistan"><img alt="Balochistan, Pakistan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Balochistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Balochistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Balochistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Balochistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Balochistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Balochistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1134" data-file-height="756" /></a></span></span> 25 April 2017 – a <a href="/wiki/Balochistan_Levies" title="Balochistan Levies">Levies</a> personnel providing security to the census team was killed while another was injured as they came under attack from gunmen in Kallag Kollanch area of <a href="/wiki/Gwadar" title="Gwadar">Gwadar</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Balochistan_Liberation_Front" class="mw-redirect" title="Balochistan Liberation Front">Balochistan Liberation Front</a> claimed responsibility for the attack.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Federally_Administered_Tribal_Areas" title="Federally Administered Tribal Areas"><img alt="Federally Administered Tribal Areas" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Flag_of_FATA.svg/23px-Flag_of_FATA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Flag_of_FATA.svg/35px-Flag_of_FATA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Flag_of_FATA.svg/45px-Flag_of_FATA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="793" data-file-height="528" /></a></span></span> 26 April 2017 – a passenger van carrying civilians and a census team hit a land-mine in <a href="/wiki/Kurram_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurram Agency">Kurram Agency</a>. 14 civilians were killed while 9 people were injured, among them 2 census workers and 4 Khasadar officials.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Balochistan,_Pakistan" title="Balochistan, Pakistan"><img alt="Balochistan, Pakistan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Balochistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Balochistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Balochistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Balochistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Balochistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Balochistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1134" data-file-height="756" /></a></span></span> 5 May 2017 – a census team performing its duties in villages in <a href="/wiki/Chaman" title="Chaman">Chaman</a> near the <a href="/wiki/Durand_Line" title="Durand Line">Afghan-Pakistan border</a> was <a href="/wiki/2017_Afghanistan%E2%80%93Pakistan_border_skirmish" title="2017 Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmish">unilaterally attacked by Afghan forces</a>. Two security personnel with the team were killed along with 10 civilians.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2017_Pakistani_census&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Census_in_Pakistan" title="Census in Pakistan">Census in Pakistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Pakistan" title="Demographics of Pakistan">Demographics of Pakistan</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2017_Pakistani_census&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output 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title="Azad Jammu & Kashmir">Azad Jammu & Kashmir</a> being 4,045,367,<sup id="cite_ref-AJKPop_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AJKPop-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the population of <a href="/wiki/Gilgit-Baltistan" title="Gilgit-Baltistan">Gilgit-Baltistan</a> being 1,492,924.<sup id="cite_ref-GBPop_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GBPop-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-pop1998-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-pop1998_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In 1998, the population of the <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Provinces of Pakistan">four provinces</a> and <a href="/wiki/Islamabad_Capital_Territory" title="Islamabad Capital Territory">Islamabad Capital Territory</a> being 132,352,279,<sup id="cite_ref-PakPop_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PakPop-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the population of <a href="/wiki/Azad_Kashmir" title="Azad Kashmir">Azad Jammu & Kashmir</a> being 2,972,501,<sup id="cite_ref-AJKPop_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AJKPop-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the population of <a href="/wiki/Gilgit-Baltistan" title="Gilgit-Baltistan">Gilgit-Baltistan</a> being 884,000.<sup id="cite_ref-GBPop_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GBPop-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is a total of 136,208,780.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FATA-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FATA_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Now defunct, having been merged into the province of <a href="/wiki/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</a></span> </li> 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