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The 2023 Census of Pakistan was the detailed enumeration of the Pakistani population and the seventh national census in the country. [1] [2] [3] It was conducted by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. [4] It was also the first ever digital census to be held in Pakistan, including the first in South Asian history. [5]
On 14 August 1947, when it became the capital city of Pakistan, its population was about 450,000 inhabitants However, the population rapidly grew with large influx of Muslim refugees after independence in 1947. By 1951, the city population had crossed one million mark. [1] in the following decade, the rate of growth of Karachi was over 80 ...
According to the 2023 Census of Pakistan, Karachi's total population was 20.3 million. [31] Karachi is one of the world's fastest-growing cities, [32] and has significant communities representing almost every ethnic group in Pakistan.
As of the 2023 Census, there are two megacities, ten million-plus cities, in Pakistan. 128 cities having a population of 100,000 or more. Of these 128 cities, 81 are located in the country's most populous province, Punjab , 23 in Sindh , 13 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , 8 in Balochistan , two in Azad Kashmir , and one is the Islamabad Capital ...
Despite Urdu being Pakistan's lingua franca, estimates on how many languages are spoken in the country range from 75 to 85, [7] [8] and in 2023, the country's three largest ethnolinguistic groups were the Punjabis (making up 36.98% of the total population), the Pashtuns (18.15%), and the Sindhis (14.31%). [9]
The Census in Pakistan is a legally decennial census and a descriptive count of Pakistan's population on Census Day, and of their dwellings, conducted and supervised by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. [2] The 2017 Census in Pakistan marks the first census to take place in Pakistan since 1998. The most recent census was the 2023 Pakistani census.
Karachi Division (Urdu: کراچی ڈویژن ) is an administrative division of the Sindh Province of Pakistan created in December 1960. There are seven districts in Karachi Division. CNIC code of Karachi Division is 42. According to 2023 Pakistani census population of Karachi Division is 20,382,881 (20 million).
Karachi District (formerly Karachi South District)(Urdu: ضلع کراچی) is an administrative district of Karachi Division in Sindh, Pakistan, created in 1972. Karachi District had a population of 2,329,764 (2.3 million) as of 2023 Pakistani census .