Descriptive Statistics of

Population of Pakistan
Business Statistics Final Project

Qaima Malik
Mohsin Nadeem
Aymen Zulfiqar
M.Qasim Hafeez
 Sample Size and
Technique:
NWFP A survey was conducted
FATA
by collecting, compiling,
FCT, Islamabad
Punjabevaluating, analyzing and
Sindh disseminating demographic,
Balochistan
economic and social data
pertaining, to all persons in a
country at a specific time. Since
the data was conducted from
overall population of Pakistan,
so it’s a census based survey. Hence, no sampling technique has been used.

Descriptive Analysis

Results of survey of Area, Population, percentage of Area and Population, Density and
Annual Growth Rate by Province, Pakistan: 1951, 1961, 1972, 1981, 1998 and 2017 censuses.

Locality Area Percentage

(Sq. K.M)
North West Frontier Province 74521 9.36

Federally Administered Tribal 27220 3.42

Areas
Federal Capital Territory, 906 0.11
Islamabad
Punjab 205345 25.7

Sindh 140914 17.79

Baluchistan 347190 43.61
Table 1) Area distribution of Provinces of Pakistan
 Figure 1) percentage distribution of Area of provinces

Provinces Population
(Thousand persons)
1951 1961 1972 1981 1998 2017
NWFP 4557 5731 8389 11061 17744 30523
FCT, Isb 96 118 238 340 805 2007
FATA 1332 1847 2491 2199 3176 5002
Punjab 20541 25464 37607 47292 73621 110012
Sindh 6048 8367 14156 19029 30440 47886
Balochistan 1167 1353 2429 4332 6566 12344
Table 2) Population of Provinces from 1951-2017

Provinces Density
(Persons per Sq. K.M)
1961 1972 1981 1998 2017
NWFP 77 113 148 238 410
FATA 68 92 81 117 184
FCT, Isb 130 263 375 889 2215
Punjab 124 183 230 358 56
Sindh 59 100 135 216 340
Balochistan 4 7 12 19 36
Table 3) Density of Provinces from 1961-2017

Provinces Annual Growth Rate

(Percentage)
1951-1961 1961-1972 1972-1981 1981-1998 1998-2017
NWFP 2.2 3.33 3.32 2.82 2.89
FATA 3.2 2.61 -1.47 2.19 2.41
FCT, Isb 2.08 6.22 4.34 5.19 4.91
Punjab 2.17 3.41 2.74 2.64 2.13
 Sindh 3 4.63 3.56 2.8 2.41
Balochistan 1.49 5.16 7.09 2.48 3.37
Table 4)
Annual
Growth
Rate of
Bwp
D.G khan
Fsd
Gujranwala
Lhr
Multan
Rawalpindi
Sahiwal

Pakistan from 1951-2017

Survey Result of Area, Population and Density by Division and District, the Punjab: 1981, 1998
and 2017 Censuses.

Divisions Area Percentage

Bahawalpur 45588 22.20
D.G Khan 38780 18.89
Faisalabad 17917 8.73
Gujranwala 17207 8.38
Lahore 11729 5.71
Multan 15211 7.41
Rawalpindi 22253 10.84
Sahiwal 10302 4.02
Sargodha 26358 12.83
Table 5) Area distribution of divisions of Punjab
 Divisions Population
1981 1998 2017
Bahawalpur 4668 7635 11464
D.G Khan 3747 6504 11014
Faisalabad 6667 9886 14177
Gujranwala 7642 11431 16124
Lahore 7183 12016 19398
Multan 5409 8447 12265
Rawalpindi 4433 6660 10008
Sahiwal 3612 5362 7380
Sargodha 3931 5680 8181
Table 6) Population among divisions of Punjab

Divisions Density
1981 1998 2017
Bahawalpur 102 167 251
D.G Khan 97 168 284
Faisalabad 372 552 791
Gujranwala 444 664 937
Lahore 612 1024 1654
Multan 356 555 806
Rawalpindi 204 299 450
Sahiwal 351 520 716
Sargodha 149 215 310
Table 7) Density of Divisions of Punjab

Interpretation
According to the measurements of locality it is shown that Federal Capital Territory,
Islamabad has the smallest area as it covers only 0.11% of the total area of Pakistan and
Baluchistan being the largest Province covers 43.61% of the total area as shown in figure 1. But
if we look at the census report it shows that Punjab has the largest population among all
provinces of the country with 110,012,000 people, whereas, Islamabad has the lowest population
of 200,700 persons as shown in table 2. Results of the density of provinces show that Balochistan
has the greatest area but a very small population as indicated in table 3. Looking at the annual
growth rate of all provinces in table 4, Islamabad has the highest growth rate during the
previous 19 years, whereas, Lahore has the lowest growth rate of 2.13%.
 Talking about the Divisions and districts of Punjab separately, Bahawalpur has the
largest area covering 22.2% area but has a very low density of 251 persons per Sq. K.M.
Whereas, Sahiwal is the smallest division of Punjab with a lowest population of 7380, but it
has an average density. Since, Lahore has the largest population of 19,398,000 people, it has
the largest density of 1654 persons per Sq. K.M.