People of Pakistan

Pakistan’s estimated population in 2011 is over 187 million making it the world’s sixth most-populous country. Pakistan has a multicultural and multi-ethnic society and hosts one of the largest refugee populations in the world as well as a young population.

Most of Pakistan’s foreign born population consists of Muslim refugees that fled from genocide and pograms in India to Pakistan after independence in 1947. The second biggest group of foreign born population consists of Muslim refugees from Afghanistan that have settled in Pakistan due to civil war in Afghanistan. The smaller groups consist of Muslim refugees from Myanmar, Bangladesh, Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, etc.

There are around 75 to 80 known Pakistani languages although, in practice, there are primarily six major languages in Pakistan spoken by 95% of the population: Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi, Saraiki, Urdu and Balochi. The official language is English and the national language is Urdu, the census indicates that around 8% of the population speak Urdu as their first language.

According to Wikipedia

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