Total population | |
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c. 199 million | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Pakistan | 199,085,847 |
Saudi Arabia | 1,500,000+ |
United Arab Emirates | 1,200,000+ |
United Kingdom | 1,174,983 |
United States | 363,699 |
Canada | 156,865 |
Kuwait | 150,000 |
Italy | 100,000+ |
Qatar | 90,000 |
Oman | 85,000 |
Greece | 80,000 |
France | 60,000 |
Malaysia | 56,000 |
China | 54,000 |
Germany | 49,000 |
Spain | 47,000 |
Bahrain | 45,000 |
Norway | 39,134 |
Australia | 31,277 |
Libya | 30,000 |
Belgium | 14,500+ |
Japan | 10,000+ |
Sweden | 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, Pahari, Shin, Burusho, Wakhi, Balti, Chitrali and other minority ethnic groups in the remote north of the country.