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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 199 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|
|
199,085,847 |
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1,500,000+ |
|
|
1,200,000+ |
|
|
1,174,983 |
|
|
363,699 |
|
|
156,865 |
|
|
150,000 |
|
|
100,000+ |
|
|
90,000 |
|
|
85,000 |
|
|
80,000 |
|
|
60,000 |
|
|
56,000 |
|
|
54,000 |
|
|
49,000 |
|
|
47,000 |
|
|
45,000 |
|
|
39,134 |
|
|
31,277 |
|
|
30,000 |
|
|
14,500+ |
|
|
10,000+ |
|
|
5,000+ |
| Languages | |
| Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto, Balochi, Saraiki, Kashmiri, Brahui, Balti and others | |
| Religion | |
| Islam 97% (majority Sunni, while 20% being Shia) Other Religions: Hinduism, Christianity, Ahmadiyya, Bahai Faith, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism | |
Pakistanis (Urdu: پاكِستانى قوم; Pakistani Qaum) are the people who are citizens of the modern Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Pakistan is a multi-ethnic and multilingual state: the majority of its people belong linguistically to the Indo-Iranian group while the remaining minority mainly belongs to a small amount of other language groups and families. As of 2011, the estimated population of Pakistan was over 199 million making it the world's sixth most-populous country.
Pakistan has one of the world's fastest growing populations. As the country is located in South Asia, Pakistani people are a mixture of various indigenous ethnic groups.
Pakistani people belong predominantly to seven main ethno-linguistic groups: Punjabi, Sindhi, Saraiki, Pashtun, Mohajir, Baloch, and Kashmiri, with substantial numbers of Brahui, Hindkowan, Shin, Burusho, Wakhi, Balti, Chitrali and other minority ethnic groups in the remote north of the country.