Editing West Pakistan (section)

== Demographics ==
[[File:Minar e Pakistan.jpg|thumb|Minar-e-Pakistan]]
The total population of the region that composes West Pakistan was approximately 29.6&nbsp;million as per the 1941 census.{{efn|name=Pakistan1941}}

According to the 1961 census, the total population of [[Pakistan]] was 93&nbsp;million, with 42.8&nbsp;million residing in [[West Pakistan]] and 50&nbsp;million residing in [[East Pakistan]]. East Pakistan hence made up around 55% of Undivided Pakistan's population whilst remaining 45% was in West Pakistan. West Pakistan also had a marginally faster growing population than East Pakistan.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Krotki |first=Karol J. |date=1963 |title=Population Size, Growth and Age Distribution: Fourth Release from the 1961 Census of Pakistan |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41258132 |journal=The Pakistan Development Review |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=279–305 |doi=10.30541/v3i2pp.279-305 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |jstor=41258132 |issn=0030-9729}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Sanaullah |first=M. |date=1962 |title=Second and Third Release from the Second Population Census of Pakistan, 1961 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41258062 |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}}</ref> 

=== Literacy rate ===
The literacy rate in Pakistan was 19.2%, in which East Pakistan had a literacy rate of 21.5% while West Pakistan had a literacy rate of 16.9%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/753508/east-wing-beats-west-wing-in-literacy-rate|title=East Wing beats West Wing in literacy rate|date=2 October 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Akhtar |first=Jamila |date=1963 |title=Literacy and Education: Fifth Release From the 1961 Census of Pakistan |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41258114 |journal=The Pakistan Development Review |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=424–442 |doi=10.30541/v3i3pp.424-442 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |jstor=41258114 |issn=0030-9729}}</ref> 

=== Ethnic groups ===
The major ethnic groups of West Pakistan was made up of Punjabis (62%), Pashtuns, Sindhis, Muhajirs, and Balochis. 

=== Migration ===
During British India's partition, it was estimated that 15 million were displaced, and nearly more than 2 million consisting of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs were killed in the deadly riots.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/70-years-later-survivors-recall-the-horrors-of-india-pakistan-partition/2017/08/14/3b8c58e4-7de9-11e7-9026-4a0a64977c92_story.html |title=70 years later, survivors recall the horrors of India-Pakistan partition |date=14 August 2017 |first1=Vidhi |last1=Doshi |first2=Nisar |last2=Mehdi |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>
During the period between 1947 and 1950, 8.6 million Muslims had moved to specially Pakistan's [[West Punjab]] region and about 6.7 million Hindus and Sikhs had gone the other way to India's [[East Punjab]] region and thus changing the demography of Pakistan drastically and resulting in overwhelming Muslim majority to this region.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/has-paks-hindu-population-dropped-sharply/articleshow/72686351.cms|title=Has Pak's Hindu population dropped sharply? |work=The Times of India}}</ref>

=== Religion ===
With the exception of the [[Federally Administered Tribal Areas]], all [[administrative division]]s in the region that would compose West Pakistan after independence collected religious data, with a combined total population of 27,266,001, for an overall response rate of 92 percent. Similar to the contemporary era, where censuses do not collect religious data in [[Azad Jammu and Kashmir]] and [[Gilgit–Baltistan]], the total number of responses for religion is slightly smaller than the total population, as detailed in the table breakdown below.

According to the 1961 census, in West Pakistan, Muslims made up 97.2% of the population, Christians 1.4%, and the remaining 1.4% belonging to other religions.<ref name=":1" />

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Religious groups in West Pakistan ([[Census in British India|1941 Census]]){{efn|name=Pakistan1941|1941 figure taken from [[Census in British India|census data]] by combining the total population of all [[administrative division]]s that compose the region of contemporary Pakistan, including [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]],<ref name="punjab1941"/>{{efn|name=WestPunjab1941}} [[Sindh]],<ref name="sindh1941"/>{{efn|name=Sindh1941}} [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]],<ref name="NWFP1941"/> [[Balochistan]],<ref name="baluchistan1941"/> [[Azad Jammu and Kashmir]],<ref name="JammuKashmir1941"/>{{efn|name=AJK1941}} and [[Gilgit–Baltistan]].<ref name="JammuKashmir1941"/>{{efn|name=GilgitBaltistan1941}}}}
! rowspan="2" |Religious<br>group
! colspan="2" |West Pakistan{{efn|name=Pakistan1941}}
! colspan="2" |[[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]]<ref name="punjab1941">{{cite web|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/saoa.crl.28215541|jstor=saoa.crl.28215541 |access-date=21 August 2022|title=Census of India, 1941. Vol. 6, Punjab |year=1941 |volume=6 |author1=India Census Commissioner |page=42}}</ref>{{rp|42}}{{efn|name=WestPunjab1941|1941 figure taken from [[Census in British India|census data]] by combining the total population of all [[Districts of British India|districts]] ([[Lahore District|Lahore]], [[Sialkot District|Sialkot]], [[Gujranwala District|Gujranwala]], [[Sheikhupura District|Sheikhupura]], [[Gujrat District|Gujrat]], [[Shahpur District|Shahpur]], [[Jhelum District|Jhelum]], [[Rawalpindi District|Rawalpindi]], [[Attock District|Attock]], [[Mianwali District|Mianwali]], [[Montgomery District|Montgomery]], [[Lyallpur District|Lyallpur]], [[Jhang District|Jhang]], [[Multan District|Multan]], [[Muzaffargarh District|Muzaffargargh]], [[Dera Ghazi Khan District|Dera Ghazi Khan]]), one [[tehsil]] ([[Shakargarh Tehsil|Shakargarh]] – then part of [[Gurdaspur district|Gurdaspur District]]), one [[princely state]] ([[Bahawalpur (princely state)|Bahawalpur]]), and one tract (Biloch Trans–Frontier) in Punjab Province, British India that ultimately fell on the western side of the [[Radcliffe Line]]. See 1941 census data here:<ref name="punjab1941"/><br>Immediately following the [[Partition of India|partition of India in 1947]], these districts and tract would ultimately make up the subdivision of West Punjab, which also later included [[Bahawalpur (princely state)|Bahawalpur]]. The state that makes up this region in the contemporary era is [[Punjab, Pakistan]].}}
! colspan="2" |[[Sindh]]<ref name="sindh1941">{{cite web|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/saoa.crl.28215545|jstor=saoa.crl.28215545 |access-date=21 August 2022|title=Census of India, 1941. Vol. 12, Sind |year=1941 |volume=12 |author1=India Census Commissioner |page=28}}</ref>{{efn|name=Sindh1941|1941 figure taken from [[Census in British India|census data]] by combining the total population of all [[Districts of British India|districts]] ([[Dadu District|Dadu]], [[Hyderabad District, Sindh|Hyderabad]], [[Karachi]], [[Larkana District|Larkana]], [[Nawabshah District|Nawabshah]], [[Sukkur District|Sukkur]], [[Tharparkar district|Tharparkar]], [[Upper Sind Frontier District|Upper Sind Frontier]]), and one [[princely state]] ([[Khairpur (princely state)|Khairpur]]), in Sindh Province, British India. See 1941 census data here: <ref name="sindh1941"/>}}
! colspan="2" |[[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|Khyber<br>Pakhtunkhwa]]<ref name="NWFP1941">{{cite web|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/saoa.crl.28215543|jstor=saoa.crl.28215543 |access-date=21 August 2022|title=Census of India, 1941. Vol. 10, North-West Frontier Province |year=1941 |volume=10 |author1=India Census Commissioner |page=22}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |[[Balochistan, Pakistan|Balochistan]]<ref name="baluchistan1941">{{cite web|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/saoa.crl.28215993|jstor=saoa.crl.28215993 |access-date=22 January 2023|title=Census of India, 1941. Vol. 14, Baluchistan |year=1942 |volume=14 |author1=India Census Commissioner |pages=13–18}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |[[Azad Jammu and Kashmir|AJK]]<ref name="JammuKashmir1941">{{cite web|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/saoa.crl.28215644|jstor=saoa.crl.28215644 |access-date=28 January 2023|title=Census of India, 1941. Vol. 22, Jammu & Kashmir |year=1941 |volume=22 |author1=India Census Commissioner |pages=337–352}}</ref>{{efn|name=AJK1941|1941 figure taken from [[Census in British India|census data]] by combining the total population of two [[Districts of British India|districts]] ([[Mirpur District|Mirpur]] and [[Muzaffarabad District|Muzaffarabad]]) and one [[Jagir]] ([[Poonch jagir|Poonch]]) in the [[Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir]] that ultimately would be administered by Pakistan, in the contemporary self-administrative territory of [[Azad Jammu and Kashmir]]. See 1941 census data here:<ref name="JammuKashmir1941"/>}}
! colspan="2" |[[Gilgit–Baltistan|Gilgit–<br>Baltistan]]<ref name="JammuKashmir1941"/>{{efn|name=GilgitBaltistan1941|1941 figure taken from [[Census in British India|census data]] by combining the total population of one [[Districts of British India|district]] ([[Astore District|Astore]]) and one agency ([[Gilgit Agency|Gilgit]]) in the [[Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir]] that ultimately would be administered by Pakistan, in the contemporary administrative territory of [[Gilgit–Baltistan]]. See 1941 census data here:<ref name="JammuKashmir1941"/>}}
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|-
| [[Islam]] [[File:Star and Crescent.svg|15px]]
! 21,113,214
! {{Percentage | 21113214 | 27266001 | 2 }}
| 13,022,160
| {{Percentage | 13022160 | 17350103 | 2 }}
| 3,462,015
| {{Percentage | 3462015 | 4840795 | 2 }}
| 2,788,797
| {{Percentage | 2788797 | 3038067 | 2 }}
| 785,181
| {{Percentage | 785181 | 857835 | 2 }}
| 939,460
| {{Percentage | 939460 | 1073154 | 2 }}
| 115,601
| {{Percentage | 115601 | 116047 | 2 }}
|-
| [[Hinduism]] [[File:Om.svg|15px]]{{efn|name=ad-dharmiB|Including [[Ad-Dharmi]]s}}
! 3,981,565
! {{Percentage | 3981565 | 27266001 | 2 }}
| 2,373,466
| {{Percentage | 2373466 | 17350103 | 2 }}
| 1,279,530
| {{Percentage | 1279530 | 4840795 | 2 }}
| 180,321
| {{Percentage | 180321 | 3038067 | 2 }}
| 54,394
| {{Percentage | 54394 | 857835 | 2 }}
| 93,559
| {{Percentage | 93559 | 1073154 | 2 }}
| 295
| {{Percentage | 295 | 116047 | 2 }}
|-
| [[Sikhism]] [[File:Khanda.svg|15px]]
! 1,672,753
! {{Percentage | 1672753 | 27266001 | 2 }}
| 1,530,112
| {{Percentage | 1530112 | 17350103 | 2 }}
| 32,627
| {{Percentage | 32627 | 4840795 | 2 }}
| 57,939
| {{Percentage | 57939 | 3038067 | 2 }}
| 12,044
| {{Percentage | 12044 | 857835 | 2 }}
| 39,910
| {{Percentage | 39910 | 1073154 | 2 }}
| 121
| {{Percentage | 121 | 116047 | 2 }}
|-
| [[Christianity]] [[File:Christian cross.svg|15px]]
! 432,724
! {{Percentage | 432724 | 27266001 | 2 }}
| 395,311
| {{Percentage | 395311 | 17350103 | 2 }}
| 20,304
| {{Percentage | 20304 | 4840795 | 2 }}
| 10,889
| {{Percentage | 10889 | 3038067 | 2 }}
| 6,056
| {{Percentage | 6056 | 857835 | 2 }}
| 136
| {{Percentage | 136 | 1073154 | 2 }}
| 28
| {{Percentage | 28 | 116047 | 2 }}
|-
| [[Tribal religions in India|Tribal]]
! 37,603
! {{Percentage | 37603 | 27266001 | 2 }}
| {{N/a}}
| {{N/a}}
| 37,598
| {{Percentage | 37598 | 4840795 | 2 }}
| {{N/a}}
| {{N/a}}
| 3
| {{Percentage | 3 | 857835 | 2 }}
| 0
| {{Percentage | 0 | 1073154 | 2 }}
| 2
| {{Percentage | 2 | 116047 | 2 }}
|-
| [[Jainism]] [[File:Jain_Prateek_Chihna.svg|15px]]
! 13,215
! {{Percentage | 13215 | 27266001 | 2 }}
| 9,520
| {{Percentage | 9520 | 17350103 | 2 }}
| 3,687
| {{Percentage | 3687 | 4840795 | 2 }}
| 1
| {{Percentage | 1 | 3038067 | 2 }}
| 7
| {{Percentage | 7 | 857835 | 2 }}
| 0
| {{Percentage | 0 | 1073154 | 2 }}
| 0
| {{Percentage | 0 | 116047 | 2 }}
|-
| [[Zoroastrianism]] [[File:Faravahar.svg|15px]] 
! 4,253
! {{Percentage | 4253 | 27266001 | 2 }}
| 312
| {{Percentage | 312 | 17350103 | 2 }}
| 3,841
| {{Percentage | 3841 | 4840795 | 2 }}
| 24
| {{Percentage | 24 | 3038067 | 2 }}
| 76
| {{Percentage | 76 | 857835 | 2 }}
| 0
| {{Percentage | 0 | 1073154 | 2 }}
| 0
| {{Percentage | 0 | 116047 | 2 }}
|-
| [[Judaism]] [[File:Star_of_David.svg|15px]] 
! 1,180
! {{Percentage | 1180 | 27266001 | 3 }}
| 7
| {{Percentage | 7 | 17350103 | 2 }}
| 1,082
| {{Percentage | 1082 | 4840795 | 2 }}
| 71
| {{Percentage | 71 | 3038067 | 2 }}
| 20
| {{Percentage | 20 | 857835 | 2 }}
| 0
| {{Percentage | 0 | 1073154 | 2 }}
| 0
| {{Percentage | 0 | 116047 | 2 }}
|-
| [[Buddhism]] [[File:Dharma_Wheel_(2).svg|15px]]
! 266
! {{Percentage | 266 | 27266001 | 3 }}
| 87
| {{Percentage | 87 | 17350103 | 2 }}
| 111
| {{Percentage | 111 | 4840795 | 2 }}
| 25
| {{Percentage | 25 | 3038067 | 2 }}
| 43
| {{Percentage | 43 | 857835 | 2 }}
| 0
| {{Percentage | 0 | 1073154 | 2 }}
| 0
| {{Percentage | 0 | 116047 | 2 }}
|-
| Others
! 19,228
! {{Percentage | 19228 | 27266001 | 2 }}
| 19,128
| {{Percentage | 19128 | 17350103 | 2 }}
| 0
| {{Percentage | 0 | 4840795 | 2 }}
| 0
| {{Percentage | 0 | 3038067 | 2 }}
| 11
| {{Percentage | 11 | 857835 | 2 }}
| 89
| {{Percentage | 89 | 1073154 | 2 }}
| 0
| {{Percentage | 0 | 116047 | 2 }}
|-
! Total responses
! 27,266,001
! {{Percentage | 27266001 | 29643600 | 2 }}
! 17,340,103
! {{Percentage | 17340103 | 17340103 | 2 }}
! 4,840,795
! {{Percentage | 4840795 | 4840795 | 2 }}
! 3,038,067{{efn|name=KPK1941|Religious data only collected in [[North-West Frontier Province|North West Frontier Province]], and not in the [[Federally Administered Tribal Areas]]. Total responses to religion includes North West Frontier Province, and total population includes both North West Frontier Province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, both [[administrative division]]s which later amalgamated to become [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]].}}
! {{Percentage | 3038067 | 5415666 | 2 }}
! 857,835
! {{Percentage | 857835 | 857835 | 2 }}
! 1,073,154
! {{Percentage | 1073154 | 1073154 | 2 }}
! 116,047
! {{Percentage | 116047 | 116047 | 2 }}
|-
! Total population
! 29,643,600
! {{Percentage | 29643600 | 29643600 | 2 }}
! 17,340,103
! {{Percentage | 17340103 | 17340103 | 2 }}
! 4,840,795
! {{Percentage | 4840795 | 4840795 | 2 }}
! 5,415,666{{efn|name=KPK1941}}
! {{Percentage | 5415666 | 5415666 | 2 }}
! 857,835
! {{Percentage | 857835 | 857835 | 2 }}
! 1,073,154
! {{Percentage | 1073154 | 1073154 | 2 }}
! 116,047
! {{Percentage | 116047 | 116047 | 2 }}
|}