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Pakistanis
Citizens and nationals of Pakistan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.[27][28] As much as 90% of the population follows Sunni Islam. A majority of around 97% of Pakistanis are Muslims.[29] The majority of Pakistanis natively speak languages belonging to the Indo-Iranic family (Indo-Aryan and Iranic subfamilies).
پاكِستانى قوم | |
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Total population | |
c. 242,341,368[lower-alpha 1]
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Regions with significant populations | |
![]() | 233,500,636[1] |
![]() | 2,600,000 (2017 estimate)[2] |
![]() | 1,700,000 (2017 estimate)[3] |
![]() | 1,587,819 (2021 official British census)[4][lower-alpha 2] |
![]() | 526,956 (2018 American Community Survey estimate)[5] |
![]() | 303,260 (2021 official Canadian census)[6] |
![]() | 235,000 (2013 estimate)[7] |
![]() | 150,000 (2009 estimate)[8] |
![]() | 140,000 (2022)[9] |
![]() | 130,593 (2017 official estimate)[10] |
![]() | 125,000 (2016 official Qatari estimate)[11] |
![]() | 112,000 (2013 estimate)[7] |
![]() | 100,000 (2017 estimate)[10] |
![]() | 89,633 (2021) [12](2016 official Australian census)[13] |
![]() | 59,281 (2017 official Malaysian estimate)[14][15] |
![]() | 54,000[16] |
![]() | 38,000 (2019 official Norwegian estimate)[17] |
![]() | 26,600 (2017)[18] |
![]() | 23,000 (2023)[19] |
![]() | 18,094 (2016 estimate)[20] |
![]() | 12,891 (2016 estimate)[21][22] |
![]() | 6,000 (2017 estimate)[10] |
![]() | 3,094 (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[26] |
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.[citation needed] 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).[30][31]