The People of Pakistan
[Note: This information derives primarily from the 1995 edition of the CIA World Factbook.]
Population
- Overall: 131,541,920 (July 1995 est.)
- Population growth rate: 1.28% (1995 est.)
- Birth rate: 41.8 births/1,000 population (1995 est.)
- Death rate: 12.07 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.)
- Infant mortality rate: 99.5 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.)
Age structure:
- 0-14 years: 44% (female 28,033,354; male 29,777,818)
- 15-64 years: 52% (female 33,456,410; male 35,109,482)
- 65 years and over: 4% (female 2,556,846; male 2,608,010) (July 1995 est.)
Net migration rate: -16.93 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.)
Life expectancy at birth
- total population: 57.86 years
- male: 57.18 years
- female: 58.56 years (1995 est.)
Total fertility rate: 6.35 children born/woman (1995 est.)
Nationality
- noun: Pakistani(s)
- adjective: Pakistani
Ethnic divisions
- Punjabi
- Sindhi
- Pashtun (Pathan)
- Baloch
- Muhajir (immigrants from India and their descendents)
- Muslim 97% (Sunni 77%, Shi'a 20%)
- Christian
- Hindu
- Other 3%
Languages
- Urdu (official)
- English (official lingua franca of Pakistani elite
- and most government ministries)
- Punjabi 64%
- Sindhi 12%
- Pashtu 8%
- Urdu
- 7%
- Balochi and other 9%
Literacy age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
- total population: 35%
- male: 47%
- female: 21%
Labor force
- total: 36 million
- by occupation: agriculture 46%, mining and manufacturing 18%, services 17%, other
19%
- note: extensive export of labor
Last modified 18 May 2001