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2023 Pakistani census

7th national census of Pakistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The 2023 Census of Pakistan was the seventh national census and detailed enumeration of the Pakistani population. It was conducted by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. It was also the first ever digital census to be held in Pakistan, and the first in South Asia. It is the most recent census in Pakistan.

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The public source identifies “2023 Pakistani census” as 7th national census of Pakistan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pakistani, census and national.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pakistani, census and national providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “2023 Pakistani census” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.