The findings of the most recent digital census, which the Council of Common Interests (CCI) certified, show that Pakistan’s population has reached 241.49 million, with a growth rate of 2.55 percent.
Chief Ministers from every province who attended the CCI meeting on Saturday under the leadership of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif endorsed the outcomes.
According to the breakdown of census data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), Sindh has a population of 55.69 million people, followed by Punjab with 127.68 million people.
Balochistan has a population of 14.89 million compared to 40.85 million in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The most recent census puts the population of Islamabad at 2.36 million.
The country has 132.35 million people according to PBS statistics as of the 1998 census. In 2017, there were 207.68 million people living there. The growth rate was 2.69 in 1998, dropped to 2.40 in 2017, and is presently 2.55 according to the most recent census.
According to the data, 38.82 percent of Pakistan’s population resides in urban regions, compared to 61.18 percent who reside in rural areas.
In KP, 84.99% of the population resides in rural regions. Rural residents in Balochistan make up 69.04 percent of the province’s overall population. In Sindh, 46.27 percent of the population lives in rural regions, compared to 59.30 percent in Punjab. Rural regions are home to 53.10 percent of Islamabad’s population.
