Pakistanis Explained

Group:Pakistanis
Flag:Flag of Pakistan.svg
Flag Caption:Flag of Pakistan
Native Name Lang:ur
Region1:
Pop1:233,500,636
Region2:
Pop2:2,600,000 (2017 estimate)[1]
Region3:
Pop3:1,700,000 (2017 estimate)[2]
Region4:
Pop4:1,587,819 (2021 official British census)[3]
Region5:
Pop5:625,570 (2022 American Community Survey estimate)[4]
Region6:
Pop6:303,260 (2021 official Canadian census)[5]
Region7:
Pop7:235,000 (2013 estimate)[6]
Region8:
Pop8:150,000 (2009 estimate)[7]
Region9:
Pop9:140,000 (2022)[8]
Region10:
Pop10:130,593 (2017 official estimate)[9]
Region11:
Pop11:125,000 (2016 official Qatari estimate)[10]
Region12:
Pop12:112,000 (2013 estimate)
Region13:
Pop13:100,000 (2017 estimate)[11]
Region14:
Pop14:50,000-100,000 (2024 estimate)[12]
Region15:
Pop15:89,633 (2021) [13] (2016 official Australian census)[14]
Region16:
Pop16:59,281 (2017 official Malaysian estimate)[15] [16]
Region17:
Pop17:54,000[17]
Region18:
Pop18:38,000 (2019 official Norwegian estimate)[18]
Region19:
Pop19:26,600 (2017)[19]
Region20:
Pop20:23,000 (2023)[20]
Region21:
Pop21:18,094 (2016 estimate)[21]
Region22: Ireland
Pop22:12,891 (2016 estimate)[22] [23]
Region23: New Zealand
Pop23:6,000 (2017 estimate)[24]
Region24: Switzerland
Pop24:3,094 (2016 estimate)
Langs:Pakistani languages, including:
Rels:Majority:
Islam (96.5%)

Minority:
Hinduism, Christianity, Ahmadiyya, Baháʼí Faith, Kalasha, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism[25]

Pakistanis (Urdu: {{Nastaliq|پاكِستانى قوم,) are the citizens and nationals of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Pakistan is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023.[26] [27] As much as 90% of the population follows Sunni Islam. A majority of around 97% of Pakistanis are Muslims.[28] The majority of Pakistanis natively speak languages belonging to the Indo-Iranic family (Indo-Aryan and Iranic subfamilies).

Located in South Asia, the country is also the source of a significantly large diaspora, most of whom reside in the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, with an estimated population of 4.7 million. The second-largest Pakistani diaspora resides throughout both Northwestern Europe and Western Europe, where there are an estimated 2.4 million; over half of this figure resides in the United Kingdom (see British Pakistanis).[29] [30]

Ethnic subgroups

See main article: Ethnic groups in Pakistan.

See also: Indo-Iranic peoples. Having one of the fastest-growing populations in the world, Pakistan's people belong to various ethnic groups, with the overwhelming majority being native speakers of the Indo-Iranic languages.[31] Ethnically, Indo-Aryan peoples comprise the majority of the population in the eastern provinces of Pakistani Punjab, Sindh, and Kashmir, while Iranic peoples comprise the majority in the western provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In addition to its four provinces, Pakistan also administers two disputed territories known as Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit–Baltistan; both territories also have an Indo-Aryan majority with the exception of the latter's subregion of Baltistan, which is largely inhabited by Tibetan peoples. Pakistan also hosts an insignificant population of Dravidian peoples, the majority of whom are South Indians who trace their roots to historical princely states such as Hyderabad Deccan and are identified with the multi-ethnic community of Muhajirs, who arrived in the country after the partition of British India in 1947.[32] [33]

Major ethnolinguistic groups in the country include Punjabis, Pashtuns, Sindhis, Saraikis, and Baloch people;[34] [35] with significant numbers of Kashmiris, Brahuis, Hindkowans, Paharis, Shina people, Burusho people, Wakhis, Baltis, Chitralis, and other minorities.[36] [37]

Culture

See main article: Culture of Pakistan. The existence of Pakistan as an Islamic state since the 1956 constitution has led to the large-scale injection of Islam into most aspects of Pakistani culture and everyday life, which has accordingly impacted the historical values and traditions of the Muslim-majority population. Marriages and other major events are significantly impacted by regional differences in culture but generally follow Islamic jurisprudence where required. The national dress of Pakistan is the shalwar kameez, a unisex garment widely-worn,[38] [39] and national dress,[40] of Pakistan. When women wear the shalwar-kameez in some regions, they usually wear a long scarf or shawl called a dupatta around the head or neck.[41] The dupatta is also employed as a form of modesty—although it is made of delicate material, it obscures the upper body's contours by passing over the shoulders. For Muslim women, the dupatta is a less stringent alternative to the chador or burqa.

Languages

See main article: Languages of Pakistan. Urdu, or Lashkari (لشکری),[42] an Indo-Aryan language, is the lingua franca of Pakistan, and while it shares official status with English, it is the preferred and dominant language used for inter-communication between different ethnic groups. It is not believed to be a language affiliated with any ethnicity and its speakers come from various backgrounds.[43] [44] Although Indo-Aryan in classification, its exact origins as a language are disputed by scholars.[45] However, despite serving as the country's lingua franca, most Pakistanis speak their ethnic languages and the lingua franca as second. Numerous regional and provincial languages are spoken as native languages by Pakistan's various ethnolinguistic groups, with the Punjabi language having a national plurality as the first language of approximately 45 percent of the total population. Languages with more than a million speakers each include Pashto, Sindhi, Saraiki, Balochi, Brahui, and Hindko. The Pakistani dialect of English is also widely spoken throughout the country, albeit mostly in urban centres such as Islamabad and Karachi.

Religion

See main article: Religion in Pakistan. Pakistan officially endorses Islam as a state religion. The overwhelming majority of Pakistanis identify as Muslims, and the country has the second-largest population of Muslims in the world after Indonesia.[46] [47] Other minority religious faiths include Hinduism, Christianity, Ahmadiyya, Sikhism, the Baháʼí Faith, Zoroastrianism, and Kalasha. Pakistan's Hindu and Christian minorities comprise the second- and third-largest religious groups in the country, respectively.

Irreligion

Irreligion, agnosticism, and atheism are present amongst a minority of Pakistanis, the majority of whom belong to the newer generations.[48] [49] [50] According to a 2005 Gallup World Poll, 1 percent of Pakistani respondents identified themselves as atheists. By 2012, the figure had risen to 2 percent. The same poll also surveyed 2,700 other people in Pakistan, of whom 54 were self-declared irreligious.

Diaspora

See main article: Overseas Pakistanis. The Pakistani diaspora maintains a significant presence in the Middle East, Europe, North America, and Australia. According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Pakistan has the seventh-largest diaspora in the world.[51] According to the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development of the Government of Pakistan, approximately 10+ million Pakistanis live abroad, with the vast majority (over 4.7 million) residing in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.[52]

See also

Further reading

Origins of Pakistanis

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Economic Survey 2014–15: Ishaq Dar touts economic growth amidst missed targets . 4 June 2015 . The Express Tribune.
  2. Web site: Statement showing number of Overseas Pakistanis living, working and studying in different regions/countries of the world, as on 31st December, 2017 - Region-Wise distribution . . 31 December 2018 . 29 August 2019 . 29 August 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190829202243/http://callsarzameen.ophrd.gov.pk/web/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Year-Book-2017-18.pdf . dead.
  3. Web site: 2021 Census: Ethnic group, local authorities in the United Kingdom. Office for National Statistics. 11 October 2013. 28 February 2015.
  4. Web site: Asian Alone or in Combination with One or More Other Races, and with One or More Asian Categories for Selected Groups . 2022 . . . 28 July 2024 .
  5. Web site: Census Profile. 2021 Census of Population. 29 March 2023. statcan.gc.ca. Statistics Canada. 4 January 2024.
  6. Web site: Unknown . 6 April 2019 . 5 June 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190605120511/http://www.ophrd.gov.pk/frmDetails.aspx . dead -->.
  7. News: Pakistanis celebrate National Day in Kuwait. Hussein. Al-Qarari. 29 March 2009. Kuwait Times. 14 April 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20110617012758/http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=NTk4MTcyNTA3. 17 June 2011.
  8. Web site: Statistischer Bericht - Mikrozensus - Bevölkerung nach Migrationshintergrund - Erstergebnisse 2022. 20 April 2023. 17 July 2023.
  9. Web site: Statement showing number of Overseas Pakistanis living, working and studying in different regions/countries of the world, as on 31st December, 2017 - Region-Wise distribution . . 31 December 2018 . 29 August 2019 . 29 August 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190829202243/http://callsarzameen.ophrd.gov.pk/web/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Year-Book-2017-18.pdf . dead.
  10. (2017)Web site: Population of Qatar by nationality - 2017 report . priyadsouza.com . 8 February 2017.
  11. Web site: Statement showing number of Overseas Pakistanis living, working and studying in different regions/countries of the world, as on 31st December, 2017 - Region-Wise distribution . . 31 December 2018 . 29 August 2019 . 29 August 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190829202243/http://callsarzameen.ophrd.gov.pk/web/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Year-Book-2017-18.pdf . dead.
  12. Web site: Governments Alarmed as 50-100k Pakistani Workers Flee To Live in Iraq . EBRAHIM AND ARSHAD MEHMOOD . themedialine.org. 29 July 2024.
  13. Web site: 2021 People in Australia who were born in Pakistan, Census Country of birth QuickStats | Australian Bureau of Statistics .
  14. Web site: ZIP . 2016 Census of Population and Housing: General Community Profile: Catalogue No. 2001.0 . censusdata.abs.gov.au . 2017 . 27 September 2017.
  15. Web site: Govt keen to cut Malaysia's dependence on foreign labor . Asia Times . 10 October 2018 . 6 April 2019.
  16. Web site: Home Ministry says there are 1.7 million legal foreign workers in Malaysia as of June 30 . Malay Mail. 27 July 2017.
  17. Web site: 통계연보(글내용) < 통계자료실 < 출입국·외국인정책본부. 출입국·외국인정책본부. Immigration.go.kr. 11 December 2017.
  18. Web site: Innvandrerbefolkningen. kommunefakta.no.
  19. Web site: Étrangers – Immigrés : pays de naissance et nationalités détaillés . insee.fr . National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies . 23 August 2020 . fr.
  20. https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/publications/press/13_00036.html 令和５年６月末現在における在留外国人数について
  21. Web site: Main Tables | 2016 Population By-census. bycensus2016.gov.hk.
  22. Web site: Census summary . 2016 . cso.ie . 15 September 2020.
  23. Web site: Ireland India Council. Indian Community In Ireland . irelandindiacouncil.ie . https://web.archive.org/web/20180120101750/http://www.irelandindiacouncil.ie/community.php . 20 January 2018.
  24. Web site: Statement showing number of Overseas Pakistanis living, working and studying in different regions/countries of the world, as on 31st December, 2017 - Region-Wise distribution . . 31 December 2018 . 29 August 2019 . 29 August 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190829202243/http://callsarzameen.ophrd.gov.pk/web/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Year-Book-2017-18.pdf . dead.
  25. News: Husain . Irfan . Faith in decline . 16 December 2012 . Dawn . 27 August 2012 . Interestingly, and somewhat intriguingly, 2 per cent of the Pakistanis surveyed see themselves as atheists, up from 1pc in 2005. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121204113125/http://dawn.com/2012/08/27/faith-in-decline/ . 4 December 2012.
  26. Web site: 2021 . Population . 2021-07-14 . . . 238,181,034 (July 2021 est.).
  27. Web site: 5 August 2023 . Announcement of Results of 7th Population and Housing Census-2023 'The Digital Census' . 15 August 2023 . Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (www.pbs.gov.pk).
  28. Web site: Pakistan, Islam in . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130618023219/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e1809?_hi=1&_pos=1 . June 18, 2013 . 2010-08-29 . . . Approximately 97 percent of Pakistanis are Muslim. The majority (85–90)% percent are Sunnis following the Hanafi school of Islamic law. Between (10–15)% are Shias, mostly Twelvers..
  29. Web site: 2.43 million Pakistanis working in Europe. 23 April 2017. The Express Tribune.
  30. Web site: 2011 Census: Ethnic group, local authorities in the United Kingdom. Office for National Statistics. 11 October 2013. 28 February 2015.
  31. Pakistan Population. (28 August 2019). Retrieved 2019-09-14, from http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/pakistan-population/
  32. Web site: Muhajir people. 2021-04-27. Encyclopedia Britannica. en.
  33. Web site: Pakistan - People. 2021-04-27. Encyclopedia Britannica. en.
  34. Web site: Ethnic Groups In Pakistan. 2021-04-27. WorldAtlas. 30 July 2019 . en-US.
  35. Web site: Pakistan - Linguistic and Ethnic Groups. 2021-04-27. countrystudies.us.
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  38. Book: Marsden, Magnus . Living Islam: Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan's North-West Frontier . Cambridge University Press . 2005 . 978-1-139-44837-6 . 37 . The village's men and boys largely dress in sombre colours in the loose trousers and long shirt (shalwar kameez) worn across Pakistan. Older men often wear woollen Chitrali caps (pakol), waistcoats and long coats (chugha), made by Chitrali tailors (darzi) who skills are renowned across Pakistan..
  39. Book: Haines, Chad . Nation, Territory, and Globalization in Pakistan: Traversing the Margins . Routledge . 2013 . 978-1-136-44997-0 . 162 . the shalwar kameez happens to be worn by just about everyone in Pakistan, including in all of Gilgit-Baltistan. . cs2.
  40. Book: Ozyegin, Gul . Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures . Routledge . 2016 . 978-1-317-13051-2 . 222 . What is common in all the cases is the wearing of shalwar, kameez, and dupatta, the national dress of Pakistan..
  41. Book: Rait . Satwant Kaur . Sikh Women In England: Religious, Social and Cultural Beliefs . 14 April 2005 . Trentham Book . 978-1-85856-353-4 . Trent and Sterling . 68.
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  44. Book: Economic and Political Weekly. 1996. Sameeksha Trust.
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  46. Book: Singh, Dr. Y P. Islam in India and Pakistan – A Religious History. Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. 2016. 9789385505638.
  47. see: Islam by country
  48. News: Pakistani youths turning into atheists . IBN Live. https://web.archive.org/web/20100911005101/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/pakistani-muslim-youths-turning-into-atheists/130354-19-93.html. dead. 11 September 2010. 1 July 2012.
  49. News: Global Index of Religiosity and Atheism . . 2 September 2012 . 2 August 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170802000101/http://www.winmr.com/web/files/news/14/file/14.pdf . dead.
  50. News: The hardest part about being faithless. Pakistan Today. 9 February 2014.
  51. Web site: India has largest diaspora population in world: UN. Service. Tribune News. Tribuneindia News Service. en. 18 March 2020.
  52. Web site: Year Book 2017-18. Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development. 18 March 2020. 29 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190829202243/http://callsarzameen.ophrd.gov.pk/web/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Year-Book-2017-18.pdf. dead.

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