Editing East Pakistan (section)

===Religion===

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|thumb = right
|caption = Religion in Pakistan (1951 Official Census)<ref name="auto">lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/7452/1/1422_1951_POP.pdf</ref>
|label1 = [[Islam]]
|value1 = 85.9
|color1 = Darkgreen
|label2 = [[Hinduism in Pakistan|Hinduism]]
|value2 = 12.9 <!-- 5.7% Hindu (Jati) 7.2% Hindu (scheduled castes) -->
|color2 = DarkOrange
|label3 = [[Christianity in Pakistan|Christianity]]
|value3 = 0.7
|color3 = Dodgerblue
|label4 = Other
|value4 = 0.5
|color4 = Grey
}}

{{Pie chart
|thumb = right
|caption = Religion in East Pakistan (1951 Census)<ref name="auto"/>
|label1 = [[Islam]]
|value1 = 76.8
|color1 = DarkGreen
|label2 = [[Hinduism]]
|value2 = 22
|color2 = DarkOrange
|label3 = [[Christianity]]
|value3 = 0.3
|color3 = Dodgerblue
|label4 = Others
|value4 = 0.9
|color4 = Grey
}}
As per the 1951 census, East Pakistan had a population of 44,251,826 people, of which 34,029,654 followed [[Islam]], 9,757,527 people followed [[Hinduism]] and 464,644 people followed other religions: [[Buddhism]], [[Christianity]] and [[Animism]].<ref name="bangla">{{Cite web |url=https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Population |title=Population |website=Banglapedia |access-date=10 September 2021 |archive-date=1 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401041939/https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Population |url-status=live }}</ref> According to the 1961 census, Muslims made up 80.4% of the population, Hindus were 18.4%, and the remaining 1.2% belonged to other religions, mainly Christianity and Buddhism.<ref name="D'Costa2011">{{citation|last=D'Costa|first=Bina|title=Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ivzKjY5LncIC&pg=PA100|pages=100–|year=2011|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-56566-0}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sanaullah |first=M. |date=1962 |title=Second and Third Release from the Second Population Census of Pakistan, 1961 |journal=The Pakistan Development Review |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=106–113 |doi=10.30541/v2i1pp.106-113 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |jstor=41258062 |issn=0030-9729 |doi-access=free }}</ref>