why is the population density not the same in all the province of Pakistan
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Pakistan is one of the most populated countries, in fact it is ranked 6th in the list of most populated countries in the world and 35th in terms of population density.There are many reasons for the large population of Pakistan which seems to be growing at a rapid speed i.e., a staggering 2% yearly.
The following graph shows Pakistan’s yearly population growth from 1951 to 2011. As we can see,the population grew from a mere 40 million in 1951 to a frightening 200 million in 2018 ,even though we lost half of our population in the EAST PAKISTAN TRAGEDY in 1971.
The first post-Independence census in India was carried out in 1951 and revealed that the country was home to around 361 million people. Pakistan’s census for the same year revealed that the country had a population of 75.7 million, with West Pakistan constituting 33.7 million of that number and East Pakistan the remaining 42 million.
This means that West Pakistan’s population was about 9.33 per cent of India’s population, 67 years ago. Pakistan’s latest census, conducted in 2017, reveals a tectonic shift in this comparative number.
The 2017 Census of Pakistan has calculated the country’s total population to be approximately 212.7 million people. The figure was unexpected as the CIA’s The World Factbook had estimated the country’s population to only reach about 202 million by that time. Other estimates were even lower, with the UN believing that Pakistan would have only 197 million people by 2017.
Although an exact comparison with official data for India is not possible to make since our last census was conducted in 2011, we can reasonably rely on the World Bank’s estimate that India’s population had reached close to 1.34 billion people in 2017 (other estimates are a tad lower).
This means that Pakistan’s population is now an astounding 15.87 per cent of India’s, a substantial increase in terms of proportion considering the time span in question.
Apart from the runaway population expansion that Pakistan has already experienced, what is, in fact, more concerning is that the country’s galloping demographic growth shows no signs of slowing down to a stable rate.
Even as India has gone from a country which used to be at the centre of Malthusian doomsday predictions not very long ago, to one which is now only a few years from hitting a replacement level fertility rate (the number of children each woman must bear to ensure a stable population level in a society), whatever little was done in the direction of family planning in Pakistan has failed spectacularly.