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Rank City District Division Population 1: Gilgit: Gilgit: Gilgit: 216,760 2: Skardu: Skardu: Baltistan: 198,000 3 Khaplu: Ghanche: Baltistan: 126,627 4 Dambudas: Roundu
As of 6 May 2023, a total of 241,831,019 people have been counted all over Pakistan, or 28.6 million more than during the 2017 Census. [49] As of 12 May 2023, a total of 238,659,411 people had been counted (a number that includes Islamabad Capital Territory, but excludes Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir). [50]
The population of Gilgit Baltistan is 1,492,924 as of 2017. [2] The estimated population of Gilgit-Baltistan in 2013 was 1.249 million, [28] [29] and it was 873,000 in 1998. [136] Approximately 14% of the population was urban. [137] The fertility rate is 4.7 children per woman, which is the highest in Pakistan. [138]
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.
The 2017 census recorded a population of 207,684,626 living in Pakistan's four provinces and the Islamabad Capital Territory. [3] The census also reported that Azad Kashmir's population stood at 4,045,367 [4] and Gilgit-Baltistan's population was 1,492,924. [5] This meant that the total population of Pakistan in 2017 was 213,222,917.
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 ...
The number rose from seven to ten in 2016 after the addition of 2 districts in Baltistan Valley and the bifurcation of the Hunza-Nagar district. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of 2021 [update] , there are 14 districts in Gilgit Baltistan , 5 in the Baltistan Division , 5 in the Gilgit Division and 4 in the Diamer Division .
Following the elections in 2020, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) emerged as the largest party after winning 16 of the 24 general seats in the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly, and securing a two-thirds supermajority in the assembly after six women representatives (four who went to the PTI) and the three technocrats (two who went to the PTI) were added with a final total of 22 out of 33 seats.