{"id":93695,"date":"2023-05-23T17:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=93695"},"modified":"2023-05-29T14:50:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T09:50:43","slug":"digital-census-findings-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/digital-census-findings-revealed.html","title":{"rendered":"Pak population reaches 249.5 million; PBS reveals digital census\u2019s findings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) Chief Census Commissioner and Chief Statistician Naeem Uz Zafar has revealed the initial results of the 7th national and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/digital-housing-census-march.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first-ever digital census<\/a> of the country, according to news published on May 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/last-date-for-digital-census.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PBS extends last date for completion of first digital census<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a press conference, Zafar stated that the total population of Pakistan has reached 249,566,743 \u2013 which rounds off to a population of 249.5 million or 25 Crores. Here is the provincial breakdown of the census:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The population of the most populous province of Punjab has reached 127,474,000 \u2013 which rounds off to 127.4 million or 12.7 Crores<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The population of Sindh has reached 57,931,000 \u2013 which rounds off to 57.9 million or 5.7 Crores<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has reached 39,823,000 \u2013 which rounds off to 39.7 million or 3.9 Crores<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The population of the largest province of Balochistan has reached 21,977,000\u2013 which rounds off to 21.9 million or 2.1 Crores<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The population of the federal capital Islamabad has reached 2,359,422\u2013 which rounds off to 2.3 million or 23 lacs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pbs-self-enumeration-drive-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Digital Census: PBS extends deadline for \u2018self enumeration drive\u2019 till March 10<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was highlighted that as compared with the figures of the last census, the population of Pakistan has increased by 49 million (around 4.9 Crores). The chief also revealed that this first-ever digital census will cost the national exchequer around PKR 34 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) Chief Census Commissioner and Chief Statistician Naeem Uz Zafar has revealed the initial results of the 7th national and first-ever digital census of the country, according to news published on May 22. Read: PBS extends last date for completion of first digital census During a press conference, Zafar stated that the total population of Pakistan has reached 249,566,743 \u2013 which rounds off to a population of 249.5 million or 25 Crores. Here is the provincial breakdown of the census: Read: Digital Census: PBS extends deadline for \u2018self enumeration drive\u2019 till March 10 It was highlighted that as compared with the figures of the last census, the population of Pakistan has increased by 49 million (around 4.9 Crores). The chief also revealed that this first-ever digital census will cost the national exchequer around PKR 34 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":93704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[55704,57002],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-93695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-digital-census-pakistan","9":"tag-pak-population-reaches-249-5-million-pbs-reveals-digital-censuss-findings","10":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PBS reveals digital census\u2019s findings- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pakistan Bureau of Statistics has revealed the initial results of the 7th national and first-ever digital census of the country....\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/digital-census-findings-revealed.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PBS reveals digital census\u2019s findings- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pakistan Bureau of Statistics has revealed the initial results of the 7th national and first-ever digital census of the country....\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/digital-census-findings-revealed.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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