Pakistanis

Pakistanis
پاكِستانى قوم
	Flag of Pakistan
Total population
	c. 242,341,368[lower-alpha 1]
Regions with significant populations
Pakistan	233,500,636[1]
Saudi Arabia	2,600,000 (2017 estimate)[2]
United Arab Emirates	1,700,000 (2017 estimate)[3]
United Kingdom	1,587,819 (2021 official British census)[4][lower-alpha 2]
United States	526,956 (2018 American Community Survey estimate)[5]
Oman	235,000 (2013 estimate)[6]
Canada	215,560 (2016 official Canadian census)[7]
Kuwait	150,000 (2009 estimate)[8]
Germany	140,000 (2022)[9]
Qatar	125,000 (2016 official Qatari estimate)[10]
France	120,000 (2017 estimate)[11]
Italy	118,181 (2017 official Italian estimate)[12]
Bahrain	112,000 (2013 estimate)[6]
Spain	82,738 (2018 official Spanish estimate)[13]
Australia	61,913 (2016 official Australian census)[14]
Malaysia	59,281 (2017 official Malaysian estimate)[15][16]
China	54,000[17]
Norway	38,000 (2019 official Norwegian estimate)[18]
Japan	23,000 (2023)[19]
Hong Kong	18,094 (2016 estimate)[20]
Ireland	12,891 (2016 estimate)[21][22]
Switzerland	3,094 (2016 estimate)[citation needed]
Languages
	Pakistani languages, including:; Balochi; Balti; Brahui; Burushaski; English[lower-alpha 3]; Hazaragi; Hindko; Kashmiri; Khowar; Kohistani; Pashto; Punjabi; Pahari-Pothwari; Saraiki; Shina; Sindhi; Urdu; Wakhi;
Religion
	Majority:; Islam (96.28%); (85–90% Sunni, 10–15% Shia); Minority:; Hinduism, Christianity, Ahmadiyya, Baháʼí Faith, Kalasha, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism[25]

Pakistanis (Urdu: پاكِستانى قوم, romanized: Pākistānī Qaum, lit. 'Pakistani Nation') are the citizens and nationals of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. According to the 2017 Pakistani census, the population of Pakistan stood at over 213 million people, making it the world's fifth-most populous country.[26] The majority of Pakistanis natively speak languages belonging to the Indo-Iranic family (Indo-Aryan and Iranic subfamilies).

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Located in South Asia, the country is also the source of a significantly large diaspora, most of whom reside in the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, with an estimated population of 4.7 million.^{[citation needed]} The second-largest Pakistani diaspora resides throughout both Northwestern Europe and Western Europe, where there are an estimated 2.4 million; over half of this figure reside in the United Kingdom (see British Pakistanis).[27][28]

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