Editing Nankana Sahib (section)

== Demographics ==
{{Pie chart|thumb=right|value2=1.44|value4=0.32|value3=1.33|value1=96.91|color1=darkGreen|color2=Yellow|color3=dodgerblue|color4=darkorchid|label1=[[Islam in Pakistan|Islam]]|label2=[[Sikhism in Pakistan|Sikhism]]|label3=[[Christianity in Pakistan|Christianity]]|label4=Others|caption=Religion in Nankana Sahib (2023)<ref>{{cite web|title=7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results|url=https://www.pbs.gov.pk/digital-census/detailed-results|access-date=2024-12-08|archive-date=2024-12-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241203030321/https://www.pbs.gov.pk/digital-census/detailed-results|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
The partition of India and Pakistan significantly changed the demographic composition of Pakistan's cities with the vast majority of Hindus and Sikhs having to leave Pakistan and vice versa for Muslims in India.<ref>http://faculty.washington.edu/brass/Partition.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414153300/http://faculty.washington.edu/brass/Partition.pdf |date=2015-04-14 }}  Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 April 2021.</ref> The [[2023 Pakistani census|2023 Pakistani Census]] however showed that while still overwhelmingly Muslim at 97%, there is now a re-established Sikh community in the holy city their founder [[Guru Nanak]] was born in. 

Data from the 2023 census shows that the city of Nankana Sahib has a [[Sikhism in Pakistan|Sikh]] population of 1,875 out of a total population of 130,041. Nankana Sahib is the only city in [[Pakistan]] where Sikhs are the largest minority religion comprising just under 1.5% of the population. There is also a significant [[Christianity in Pakistan|Christian]] population of 1,734 in the city making up 1.3% of the population.<ref>{{Cite web |title=TABLE 9 : POPULATION BY SEX, RELIGION AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS - 2023 |url=https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/punjab/dcr/table_9.pdf |access-date=8 December 2024}}</ref>

The city is overwhelmingly Punjabi speaking, with [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] speakers comprising over 96.3% of the population. 2.5% also stated [[Urdu]] as their mother tongue.<ref>{{Cite web |title=TABLE 11 : POPULATION BY MOTHER TONGUE, SEX AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023 |url=https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/punjab/dcr/table_11.pdf |access-date=8 December 2024 |archive-date=8 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241208092942/https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/punjab/dcr/table_11.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

The average household size in 2023 was 6.3 per household while the 2017-2023 average annual growth rate was 2.82%.<ref>{{Cite web |title=TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, PUNJAB |url=https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/punjab/dcr/table_1.pdf |access-date=8 December 2024 |archive-date=8 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241208081746/https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/punjab/dcr/table_1.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>