ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's population stands at 207.774 million with an average annual growth rate of 2.4 percent, according to the provisional results of the 6th Population and Housing Census.
“The provisional results show the total population of Pakistan as 207.774 million, with an average annual growth rate of 2.4 percent over a period of 1998-2017,” the statistics bureau said in a statement.
Pakistan's population has increased 57 percent since 1998, the last time there was a census held.
The total population is made up of more than 106 million males, more than 101 million females and 10,418 transgender people, who have been counted in a census for the first time, the bureau said.
The population was just over 130 million in 1998, the last time a census was conducted.
Nearly 118,000 government officials escorted by tens of thousands of troops and police started the 70-day data-gathering drive in March on the orders of the Supreme Court.
Electoral seats in Pakistan’s parliament are assigned using population density data.
The census found a nearly 4 percent increase in the urban population, with 36.38 percent of the total population living in urban areas.
The southern province of Sindh is the most urbanized with 52.02 percent of people there in cities.
The most prosperous province of Punjab, which is considered the political heartland and bread basket, maintains its status as the most populous province with more than half of all Pakistanis - 110 million people.
