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Pakistan

255,219,554

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+3.95M2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+64.8%from 154.88M
Life expectancy67.8 years2024
Fertility rate3.55births per woman · 2024
Urban population39.5%2025
RegionMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanLower middle income

A country at every age

How Pakistan is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1436.2%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6459.4%Working-age population
Ages 65+4.4%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate27.4births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.4deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+21.0births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-1.24Mnet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Pakistan look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 371.86M in 2050—48.0% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024251.27M
  2. 2050371.86M
  3. 2100511M
Median age in 205026.3years
Births in 20507.5Mduring the year
Deaths in 20502.48Mduring the year
Life expectancy71.3years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196045.71M
  2. 197060.17M
  3. 198082.29M
  4. 1990116.16M
  5. 2000154.88M
  6. 2010199.24M
  7. 2020235M
  8. 2025255.22M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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