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Pakistan: Population

Millions of people · 1800–2025 · 226 observations · forecasts to 2031 · pop

2025
252 millionpeople
Change on 2024
+2.1%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+2.8%a year

Population

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Recent values

Millions of people

YearValue
2031279.1Forecast
2030273.8Forecast
2029268.9Forecast
2028264.9Forecast
2027261.0Forecast
2026256.0Forecast
2025252.1
2024247.0
2023241.9
2022229.2
2021224.8
2020220.4
2019216.1
2018211.8
2017207.7
2016198.8

Sources

  • Gapminder1800–2023
  • Fouquin & Hugot (CEPII)1950–2014
  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • Maddison Project Database1950–2022
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • Bordo1970–1997
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2023
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • Gapminder (forecast)2023–2030
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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