Saqib Ali Haidri
Muzaffarabad: Bureau of Statistics Pakistan issued the census report conducted in country wide. According to 6th census report, total population of Pakistan consists of 20 Crore 77 lacs 74 thousand and 520 individuals.
Rural population is 132189000 and masses in urban areas are 75584000. Total population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is 3 billion and 5.2 million. Sindh consists of 4 billion and 7.8 million, baluchistan have 1 million and 2.3 million population. Islamabad consists of more than 2 million permanent residents and total strength of FATA residents is more than 5 million. The most populated province of Punjab have total popualtion of more than11 billion.
Since 1998, increase percentage of total population of Pakistan is 2.4 percent per year. Population growth of urban areas increased from 32.52 percent to 36.38 percent. Increase in KPK population is 2 percent, 5.5% in Punjab, 4% in Sindh and Baluchistan was calculated according to reports. Overall increase in total population since 1998 to 2017 was 57 percent as per reports of statistics division of Pakistan.