The People Of Pakistan

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Pakistan is one of the largest populous countries of the world (187 342 721 people, 6 th place in the world rating on July 2011).
Population — ▲193 238 868 people (2013), 6th in the world).
According to some forecasts, on present trends, by 2020, Pakistan's population could reach more than 200 million people. The medium projection, the population by 2100 g will be 294 million. The annual increase of 1,551 percent.
Fertility — 2.96 births per woman.
The infant mortality rate is 63,26 1000.
Life expectancy — 66,35 years.
Ethnic groups: Punjabis 44,68 %, the Pashtuns of 15.42 %, Sindhi 14.1 %, and seraiki of 8.38 %,Muhajirs (forced migrants from India) of 7.57 %, Balochi 3.57 percent, other 6.28 to %.
Religion: Muslim 95 % (Sunni 75% and Shia 20 %), other (including Christian and Hindu) 5 %.
The literacy rate is 54.9 percent; 68.6% of men and 40.3 % women (evaluation 2009).
The bulk of the population lives in the Indus river valley.
The largest city of Pakistan located in the Eastern part of the country (Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, etc.). Urban population — 36 % (in 2008).
This population almost 5 European countries, such as Ukraine.
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Punjabi, Punjabis (V.-pang. ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਲੋਕ, s.-pang. لوک پنجابی) is the main population of the geographical and historical region of Punjab (the Pakistani state of Punjab and in the territory of the Indian States of Punjab and Haryana). A large Diaspora also in Europe, America, Asia, the middle East Africa. The number of 110-120 million people.
The majority of Punjabi speaks Punjabi language (setwindowopacity the Indo-Iranian family of languages), minority (the Sikhs) — Hindi (in India), dialects Lundy (lahnda) and Urdu (in Pakistan). In Pakistan, Panjabi profess Islam, and in India mostly belong to — Sikhism or Hinduism.The ethnogenesis of people is diverse; from ancient times, it was joined by the alien population who settled here in connection with the Aryan, sakskimi(Scythian), Arab and other invasions. A great contribution to the formation of Panjabi was brought by the JAT, Rajput and gujari. From the 3rd Millennium BC. the Punjabis became known as the founders of the powerful States (Taxila, etc.). Mostly Punjabi farmers (the main agricultural crop — wheat in irrigated land); developed weaving, pottery, carpet weaving and artistic woodcarving. Typical housing in the villages — mud-brick house with a flat roof. Among Panjabi relatively many skilled workers and representatives of technical intelligentsia, this is especially true for India. The percentage of literacy of Punjabis in both countries of their settlement is significantly higher than that of neighboring peoples.

Pashtun, pastuna (Pashto پښتون Zap. [paʂtun], Eastern. [paxtun], pers. پختون [pæχtun],پٹھان Urdu, Hindi पठान paṭhān [pəʈʰaːn]) or Afghans (pers. افغانی [æfʁɒːniː]) —an Iranian people inhabiting mostly the South-East, South and South-zapaduralstroy and North-West Pakistan, the main distinguishing characteristics of which are East of the Pashto language, traditionalism, code of honor Pashtunwali and extensive tribal structure. The exact number of Pashtuns cannot be calculated due to the lack of census in Afghanistan since 1979, but it is estimated at approximately 42 million people, of which only about 30 % live in Afghanistan, where Pashtuns — the leading and the dominant ethnic group in the country. In the North-West of Pakistan is home to about 1 700 000, mostly Pashtun, refugees from Afghanistan.

Brahui
Brahui is Dravidian people living in the provinces of Balochistan and Sindh of Pakistan and in the border areas of Afghanistan and Iran. The number in Pakistan — about 2 million 367 thousand people. Speak Dravidian language braai. Also speak dari, Arabic, Urdu and Farsi. Confess Sunni Islam.
Buresi
Buresi (bariski, burushaski, vertici), Caucasoid people of the mountainous areas of Kashmir under controllingsysteme. Most live in the Hunza river valley. They speak isolated language burushaski. The population of about 87 thousand people. Faithful Muslims (Ismailis). According to a hypothesis of S. A. Starostin, buresi — the descendants of sinocanada not assimilated by Indo-Europeans.

Kalash
Kalash is a small dard people, inhabiting three valleys of right tributaries of the Chitral (Kunar) in the mountains of southern Hindukush district Chitral of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan). The native language of the Kalash belongs to the dard group Indo-Iranian languages. The uniqueness of the people, surrounded on all sides by Islamized neighbors, is that a significant part still professes the pagan religion formed on the basis of Indo-Iranian religion and beliefs of the substrate.

Kashmiris
Kashmiris — the people, the main population of the state of Jammu and Kashmir in India. Live mainly in the Kashmir valley along the Jhelum river; in addition, some of the Kashmiris left the region and currently resides in Pakistan. Population — more than 4.5 million people. Speak the Kashmiri language, in the cities in Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi.

Kohistani
Kohistani— the common name of a small group of related tribes, the indigenous population of the historical region of Kokhistan (North North-West Frontier province in Northern Pakistan). The total number of about 350 thousand people (est con. XX V.). Kopistansky speak languages belonging to the Eastern group of the dard languages are also common languages Urdu, Pashto, Sinai.

CWC
CWC — the people, the main population of the district Chitral in Northern Pakistan. The language of the CWC — Khobar, refers to dard groupinternal branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Religion most of the CWC — Muslims-Ismailis. Engaged in agriculture and cattle; the artisans, especially blacksmiths are famous among the surrounding peoples. Social order, everyday life and family relations of the CWC are poorly understood.

The Rajputs
The Rajputs — the ethno-caste group in the composition of the Kshatriya Varna in Pakistan and Northern India. Total population — 17 million people. Living in the border areas of India and Pakistan and in the States of Punjab, Rajasthan and Maharashtra. Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism.

And has always been
Siddis are of African origin mostly Negroid racial-ethnic group in South Asia. Formed in the VIII—XIX centuries as a result of traditional trade relations of India with Ethiopia and the Middle East, the Arab conquests in the North of the region, Arab and Portuguese slave trade in the future. Mostly descendants of black slaves brought from Africa by the Arab traders in the Middle ages, from bantuannya peoples of East Africa.

Christians
Christians in Pakistan are a religious minority, only 3 million people (i.e., 1.6 percent). The largest Christian Church in the country — St. Patrick's Cathedral — located in the city of Karachi. In 1990, the Church in Faisalabad was destroyed. In Pakistan in 2005 was the threat of bombing. In Lahore Cathedral of the Resurrection. In Karachi lives a Christian group, ishoa. The Church of Pakistan's 800,000 members. The Church of Pakistan was founded in 1970 as a Union of the Lutheran, Methodist and Anglican churches.

Uzbeks
About 500,000 Uzbeks living in Pakistan (Urdu ازبک, UZB. Ozbeklar). The Uzbek population in Pakistan was formed from immigrants from Uzbekistan and Afghanistan (around 7.3% of Afghans in Pakistan are Uzbeks). Uzbeks are mainly settled in North-West Pakistan, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (particularly Peshawar).