Pakistanis

"Pakistani" redirects here. For a demographical overview, see Demographics of Pakistan. For Pakistani people living outside of Pakistan, see Pakistani diaspora. For other uses, see Pakistani (disambiguation).

Pakistanis
پاكِستانى قوم
Flag of Pakistan
Total population
c. 242,341,368[a]
Regions with significant populations
 Pakistan241,499,431 (2023 Pakistan Census)[2]
 Saudi Arabia2,600,000 (2017 estimate)[3]
 United Arab Emirates1,700,000 (2017 estimate)[4]
 United Kingdom1,587,819 (2021 official British census)[5][b]
 United States625,570 (2022 American Community Survey estimate)[6]
 Canada303,260 (2021 official Canadian census)[7]
 Oman235,000 (2013 estimate)[8]
 Kuwait150,000 (2009 estimate)[9]
 Germany140,000 (2022)[10]
 Italy130,593 (2017 official estimate)[11]
 Qatar125,000 (2016 official Qatari estimate)[12]
 Bahrain112,000 (2013 estimate)[8]
 Spain100,000 (2017 estimate)[11]
 Iraq50,000-100,000 (2024 estimate)[13]
 Australia89,633 (2021) [14](2016 official Australian census)[15]
 Malaysia59,281 (2017 official Malaysian estimate)[16][17]
 China54,000[18]
 Norway38,000 (2019 official Norwegian estimate)[19]
 France26,600 (2017)[20]
 Japan23,000 (2023)[21]
 Hong Kong18,094 (2016 estimate)[22]
 Ireland15,185 (2022 estimate)[23][24]
 New Zealand6,000 (2017 estimate)[11]
  Switzerland3,094 (2016 estimate)[citation needed]
Languages
Pakistani languages, including:
Religion
Majority:
Islam (96.5%)
(85–90% Sunni, 10–15% Shia)
Minority:
Hinduism, Christianity, Ahmadiyya, Baháʼí Faith, Kalasha, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism

Pakistanis (Urdu: پاكِستانى قوم, romanized: Pākistānī Qaum, lit. 'Pakistani Nation') are the citizens and nationals of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Pakistan is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023.[28][29] As much as 90% of the population follows Sunni Islam. A majority of around 97% of Pakistanis are Muslims.[30] The majority of Pakistanis natively speak languages belonging to the Indo-Iranic family (Indo-Aryan and Iranic subfamilies).

Located in South Asia, the country is also the source of a significantly large diaspora, most of whom reside in the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, with an estimated population of 4.7 million.[4] The second-largest Pakistani diaspora resides throughout both Northwestern Europe and Western Europe, where there are an estimated 2.4 million; over half of this figure resides in the United Kingdom (see British Pakistanis).[31][32]

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  3. ^ "Economic Survey 2014–15: Ishaq Dar touts economic growth amidst missed targets". The Express Tribune. 4 June 2015.
  4. ^ a b "Statement showing number of Overseas Pakistanis living, working and studying in different regions/countries of the world, as on 31st December, 2017 - Region-Wise distribution" (PDF). Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development. 31 December 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019. Cite error: The named reference "ophrd.gov.pk" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  5. ^ "2021 Census: Ethnic group, local authorities in the United Kingdom". Office for National Statistics. 11 October 2013. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  6. ^ "Asian Alone or in Combination with One or More Other Races, and with One or More Asian Categories for Selected Groups". United States Census Bureau. United States Department of Commerce. 2022. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  7. ^ "Census Profile. 2021 Census of Population". statcan.gc.ca. Statistics Canada. 29 March 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  8. ^ a b "Unknown". Retrieved 6 April 2019.[dead link‍]
  9. ^ Al-Qarari, Hussein (29 March 2009). "Pakistanis celebrate National Day in Kuwait". Kuwait Times. Archived from the original on 17 June 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
  10. ^ "Statistischer Bericht - Mikrozensus - Bevölkerung nach Migrationshintergrund - Erstergebnisse 2022". 20 April 2023. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  11. ^ a b c "Statement showing number of Overseas Pakistanis living, working and studying in different regions/countries of the world, as on 31st December, 2017 - Region-Wise distribution" (PDF). Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development. 31 December 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  12. ^ (2017)"Population of Qatar by nationality - 2017 report". priyadsouza.com. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  13. ^ EBRAHIM AND ARSHAD MEHMOOD. "Governments Alarmed as 50-100k Pakistani Workers Flee To Live in Iraq". themedialine.org. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  14. ^ "2021 People in Australia who were born in Pakistan, Census Country of birth QuickStats | Australian Bureau of Statistics".
  15. ^ "2016 Census of Population and Housing: General Community Profile: Catalogue No. 2001.0" (ZIP). censusdata.abs.gov.au. 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  16. ^ "Govt keen to cut Malaysia's dependence on foreign labor". Asia Times. 10 October 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  17. ^ "Home Ministry says there are 1.7 million legal foreign workers in Malaysia as of June 30". Malay Mail. 27 July 2017.
  18. ^ 출입국·외국인정책본부. "통계연보(글내용) < 통계자료실 < 출입국·외국인정책본부". Immigration.go.kr. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  19. ^ "Innvandrerbefolkningen". kommunefakta.no.
  20. ^ "Étrangers – Immigrés : pays de naissance et nationalités détaillés". insee.fr (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  21. ^ 令和５年６月末現在における在留外国人数について
  22. ^ "Main Tables | 2016 Population By-census". bycensus2016.gov.hk.
  23. ^ "Census summary" (PDF). cso.ie. 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  24. ^ "Indian Community In Ireland". irelandindiacouncil.ie. Ireland India Council. Archived from the original on 20 January 2018.
  25. ^ Mariam, Durrani (2012). "Banishing Colonial Specters: Language Ideology and Education Policy in Pakistan". University of Pennsylvania.
  26. ^ "Pakistan - People | Britannica". britannica.com. Retrieved 13 April 2023. With the exception of this educated elite, English is spoken fluently by only a small percentage of the population.
  27. ^ Singh, Shashank, and Shailendra Singh. "Systematic review of spell-checkers for highly inflectional languages." Artificial Intelligence Review 53.6 (2020): 4051-4092.
  28. ^ "Population". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021. 238,181,034 (July 2021 est.)
  29. ^ "Announcement of Results of 7th Population and Housing Census-2023 'The Digital Census'" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (www.pbs.gov.pk). 5 August 2023. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  30. ^ "Pakistan, Islam in". Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 18 June 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2010. Approximately 97 percent of Pakistanis are Muslim. The majority (85–90)% percent are Sunnis following the Hanafi school of Islamic law. Between (10–15)% are Shias, mostly Twelvers.
  31. ^ "2.43 million Pakistanis working in Europe". The Express Tribune. 23 April 2017.
  32. ^ "2011 Census: Ethnic group, local authorities in the United Kingdom". Office for National Statistics. 11 October 2013. Retrieved 28 February 2015.


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