The number of people living in a country, area or place is called population. If you have four people in your house, your house population will be four. Population of a rural area can be of few hundred and an urban area can consist of thousands or millions of people. The population includes children, the elderly, men and women. For the study of population, a subject of demography has been introduced, in which statistical analysis of the human population is done. It provides statistical analysis of birth rates, mortality rates, housing, migration, diseases, population distribution and other similar parameters. The discipline of Demography was started by the famous Muslim scholar Ibn- e- Khaldun. He has analyzed the population in his book "Muqaddimah Ibn- e- Khaldun."
Population Growth Rate
How fast the population of Pakistan is growing, it can be estimated from 2023 census which shows that the population of Pakistan has exceeded 241.4 million. The annual population growth rate is around 2.55 percent.
Though the area is the same, yet the population is growing rapidly. That is why Pakistan is counted among the densely populated countries. Two important things about population are kept in mind, one is distribution of population and the other is its growth rate.