ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Friday that 235 million individuals have been counted as of that time, a staggering growth of 27 million, or 12.98%, since 2017.
That year’s census had put the country’s population at 207.68m.
According to instructions from the Census Monitoring Committee (CMC), the digital census activities will restart following the Eid vacations, according to PBS spokesperson Sarwar Gondal.
He said that from April 21 to April 25 for Eid, fieldwork for the seventh Population and Housing Census had been suspended.
According to an official announcement, more than 16.5m individuals had been counted in Karachi so far, while Lahore’s population had crossed 11.5m.
The number of individuals counted so far in Punjab is over 116m while in Sindh 52m people had been counted. The corresponding figure for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is 39m and for Balochistan it is 19m.
According to the data, both Karachi and Lahore’s populations as well as the overall population of the country have significantly increased.
The province governments are assisted daily in spotting any anomalies, any areas missed, and other emergent anomalies by the real-time data progress monitoring dashboards, built in collaboration with NADRA and delivered by PBS to the provincial and district governments.
