Official Languages

Languages spoken here

Gujarati (secondary) · Pakistan Sign Language (secondary) · Palula (secondary) · Sindhi (secondary) · Turkmen (secondary) · Urdu (secondary) · Urdu (Latin translit.) (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Pakistan

Peoples

Largest first.

People	Population	Language	Religion
Jat (Muslim traditions)	32357000	Saraiki	Islam
Pashtun	29052000	Pashto, Central	Islam
Rajput (Muslim traditions)	16912000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Shaikh	11792000	Sindhi	Islam
Arain (Muslim traditions)	10364000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Baloch unspecified	8235000	Balochi, Eastern	Islam
Sayyid	5988000	Sindhi	Islam
Awan	5157000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Gujar (Muslim traditions)	4688000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Ansari	4458000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Kumhar (Muslim traditions)	3571000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Pashtun Yusafzai	3262000	Pashto, Northern	Islam
Mochi (Muslim traditions)	3208000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Tarkhan (Muslim traditions)	2867000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Teli (Muslim traditions)	2737000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Brahui unspecified	2527000	Brahui	Islam
Mussali	2450000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Gujjar (Muslim traditions)	2281000	Hindko, Northern	Islam
Machhi (Muslim traditions)	2178000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Hajam	2084000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Lohar (Muslim traditions)	2013000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Mirasi (Muslim traditions)	1900000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Valmiki (Christian traditions)	1855000	Punjabi, Western	Christianity
Rajput Bhatti (Muslim traditions)	1848000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Jat Gahlot (Muslim traditions)	1530000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Sindhi Sama	1442000	Sindhi	Islam
Rajput Chauhan (Muslim traditions)	1345000	Sindhi	Islam
Baloch Rind	1284000	Balochi, Southern	Islam
Pashtun Kakar	1283000	Pashto, Southern	Islam
Pashtun Khattak	1274000	Pashto, Northern	Islam
Pashtun Mandanri (Manezai)	1252000	Pashto, Northern	Islam
Bengali Muslim Moghal	1227000	Urdu	Islam
Kashmiri (Muslim traditions)	1186000	Hindko, Northern	Islam
Dhobi (Muslim traditions)	1166000	Saraiki	Islam
Brahui Jhalawan	1114000	Brahui	Islam
Jat Kharral (Muslim traditions)	1102000	Saraiki	Islam
Deaf	1097000	Pakistan Sign Language	Unknown
Khatri (Muslim traditions)	1085000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Pashtun Mohmand	1062000	Pashto, Northern	Islam
Qassab	1057000	Saraiki	Islam
Shaikh Qureshi	971000	Sindhi	Islam
Jat Varaich (Muslim traditions)	965000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Mewati (Muslim traditions)	902000	Sindhi	Islam
Jat Sindhu (Muslim traditions)	896000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Kamboh (Muslim traditions)	881000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Tajik	868000	Dari	Islam
Khoja	860000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Rajput Sial	805000	Saraiki	Islam
Pashtun Tarin	793000	Pashto, Southern	Islam
Jhinwar (Muslim traditions)	775000	Punjabi, Western	Islam

Languages

38 languages recorded here.

Aimaq

Arabic, Mesopotamian

Balochi, Eastern

Balochi, Southern

Balochi, Western

Balti

Brahui

Brokskat

Burushaski

Dari

Dhatki

Gujarati

Hazaragi

Hindko, Northern

Hindko, Southern

Kateviri

Khowar

Kohistani, Indus

Lasi

Marwari (Pakistan)

Oadki

Pahari-Potwari

Pakistan Sign Language

Palula

Pashto, Central

Pashto, Northern

Pashto, Southern

Punjabi, Western

Rohingya

Romani, Vlax

Saraiki

Shina

Sindhi

Turkmen

Urdu

Uzbek, Northern

Wakhi

Yadgha

All catalogue fields

161 fields recorded

rog3: PK
iso3: PAK
iso2: PK
ctry: Pakistan
poplpeoples: 257460000
cntpeoples: 773
cntpeopleslr: 765
poplpeopleslr: 255267000
jpscalectry: 1
rol3officiallanguage: urd
officiallang: Urdu
rlg3primary: 6
religionprimary: Islam
percentchristianity: 0.85836387557949
c_10_40window: Y
rog2: ASI
continent: Asia
regioncode: 4
regionname: Asia, South
workersneeded: 5351
harvest_rog3: PK
harvest_iso3: PAK
harvest_iso2: PK
harvest_owcountrycode: PAKI
harvest_ethnologuecountrycode: PK
harvest_countrynumber: 162
harvest_ctry: Pakistan
harvest_ctryshort: Pakistan
harvest_countrynamechinese: 巴基斯坦
harvest_countrynamechineseshort: 巴基斯坦
harvest_countrynamedutch: Pakistan
harvest_countrynamefrench: Pakistan
harvest_countrynamefrenchshort: Pakistan
harvest_countrynamegerman: Pakistan
harvest_countrynamegermanshort: Pakistan
harvest_countrynamehindi: पाकिस्तान
harvest_countrynameindonesian: Pakistan
harvest_countrynameindonesianshort: Pakistan
harvest_countrynameitalian: Pakistan
harvest_countrynameitalianshort: Pakistan
harvest_countrynamekorean: 파키스탄
harvest_countrynamekoreanshort: 파키스탄
harvest_countrynamenorwegian: Pakistan
harvest_countrynamenorwegianshort: Pakistan
harvest_countrynameportuguese: Paquistão
harvest_countrynameportugueseshort: Paquistão
harvest_countrynamerussian: Пакистан
harvest_countrynamerussianshort: Пакистан
harvest_countrynamespanish: Pakistán
harvest_countrynamespanishshort: Pakistán
harvest_countrynamevietnamese: Pakistan
harvest_countrynamevietnameseshort: Pakistan
harvest_chineseconcatenationprefix: 在
harvest_frenchconcatenationprefix: de
harvest_germanconcatenationprefix: in
harvest_indonesianconcatenationprefix: di
harvest_italianconcatenationprefix: -
harvest_koreanconcatenationprefix: 의
harvest_norwegianconcatenationprefix: i
harvest_portugueseconcatenationprefix: no
harvest_russianconcatenationprefix: B
harvest_spanishconcatenationprefix: en el
harvest_vietnameseconcatenationprefix: ở
harvest_ethnologuemapexists: N
harvest_southasia: Y
harvest_rog2: ASI
harvest_regioncode2414: 19
harvest_regioncode: 4
harvest_unsr: 034
harvest_worldabc: A
harvest_capital: Islamabad
harvest_population: 255220000
harvest_populationsource: UN Country Population (2025)
harvest_prayercastvideo: https://prayercast.com/pakistan.html
harvest_prayercastvimeourl: 22671659
harvest_waldnerguide: prayer-guide-pk.pdf
harvest_unmap: https://un.org/geospatial/content/pakistan
harvest_persecutionrankingod: 8
harvest_persecutionrankingodlink: https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/persecution/countries/pakistan
harvest_jpscale: 1
harvest_c_10_40window: Y
harvest_c_10_40windoworiginal: Y
harvest_biblerestrictionsrank: 20
harvest_bibleshortagerank: 20
harvest_bibleaccessurl: https://www.bibleaccesslist.org/profiles/PK_2025_profile.pdf
harvest_owpctevang: 0.6
harvest_owpctcharismatic: 0.4296985
harvest_owevangelicalgrowthrate: 3.3
harvest_owcountrypage: pakistan
harvest_literacyrate: 59
harvest_literacysource: Ethnologue
harvest_percenturbanized: 37
harvest_rol3officiallanguage: urd
harvest_rlg3primary: 6
harvest_pctanimist: 0.02
harvest_pctbahai: 0.05
harvest_pctbuddhism: 0
harvest_pctchinese: 0
harvest_pcthindu: 1.6
harvest_pctislam: 95.8
harvest_pctsikh: 0.03
harvest_pctjudaism: 0
harvest_pctnonreligious: 0.02
harvest_pctother: 0.03
harvest_pctchristian: 2.45
harvest_pctchristianprotestant: 1.39
harvest_pctchristianindependent: 0.35
harvest_pctchristiananglican: 0
harvest_pctchristianromancatholic: 0.71
harvest_pctchristianorthodoxcatholic: 0
harvest_pctchristianmarginal: 0
harvest_pctchristianunaffiliated: 0
harvest_pctchristiandoublyprofessing: 0
harvest_pctchristianother: 0
harvest_pctchristianextra: 0
harvest_rop1: A005
harvest_hdiyear: 2015
harvest_hdivalue: 0.55
harvest_hdirank: 147
harvest_internetusers: 15.5
harvest_flashmapzoom: 500
harvest_flashmapzoomx: -282
harvest_flashmapzoomy: -155
harvest_googlemapzoom: 5
harvest_googlemaplat: 30.6
harvest_googlemaplng: 70
harvest_ctrylatitude: 30.375321
harvest_ctrylongitude: 69.345116
harvest_securitylevel: 2
harvest_ethnolinguisticmap: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/pakistan_ethnic_80.jpg
harvest_statedeptreligiousfreedom: https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/pakistan/
harvest_provincesdisplayable: Y
harvest_adm1label: Provinces
harvest_wcdsubregioncode: 202
harvest_poplgrowthrate: 2.031354530226576
harvest_v59country: Y
harvest_godreportsurl: http://blog.godreports.com/country/?countrycode=pk&joshua=pk
harvest_datareportalurl: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-pakistan
harvest_internetusage: 16
harvest_internetusagesourceyear: 2017
harvest_pray1040url: https://pray1040.com/pray-for-pakistan/
harvest_voiceofmartyrsurl: https://www.persecution.com/globalprayerguide/pakistan/
harvest_biblesocietyurl: http://www.pbs.org.pk/
harvest_areasquaremiles: 307375
harvest_areasquarekilometers: 796095
harvest_populationpersquaremile: 482
harvest_countryphonecode: 92
harvest_wincountryprofile: http://win1040.com/page.php?id=603
harvest_owpctchristian1986: 1.6
harvest_owpctevangelical1986: 0.2
harvest_owpctchristian1993: 1.7
harvest_owpctevangelical1993: 0.2
harvest_owpctchristian2001: 2.31
harvest_owpctevangelical2001: 0.4
harvest_stonyground: Y
harvest_religiondatayear: 2010
harvest_internetctrycode: .pk
harvest_worldfactbookurl: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/pakistan
harvest_source: pjj
harvest_editname: BM
harvest_editdate: 09/12/02 00:00:00