Hindu Population (PK) Population of Hindus in the World With about 885 million followers, Hinduism is the third biggest religion in the world after Christianity and Islam. India is home to more than 800 million Hindus, while the rest are spread around the globe. Hinduism accounts for more than 13 percent of the world population of 6.68 billion and is growing at around 1.52 percent annually. Population of Hindus in the Pakistan According to an estimation by Pakistan Hindu Council there are more than 8000000 Hindus are currently living in the different states of Pakistan, but majority of Hindus is settled in the province of Sindh. The Hindus of Pakistan are a religious minority in an overwhelmingly Muslim society. They constitute about 4% of the population of 200 million. They live primarily in the urban areas of the province of Sindh in the lower Indus valley and over half are concentrated in the south-east district of Tharparkar which borders India. For the most part Hindus in Pakistan are well educated and active in commerce, trade and the civil service. Sindh at one time had a Hindu majority; however, invasion and later settlement by Arabs, Persians and Turks and conversion by Sindhis to Islam led to a decrease in the proportion of Hindus. Prior to Partition in 1947 a quarter of the population of Sindh was Hindu but after widespread inter-religious violence in the North West Frontier Province and in the Punjab the great majority of Hindus living in Pakistan elected to migrate to India. Sindhi Hindus joined in the migration, fearful that violence might spread to their province after Partition. By late 1948 most had left Sindh for India, where large numbers settled in Rajasthan, Delhi and Bombay which is now known as Mumbai. Following Graphs will clarify you about the State wise Population of Hindus and the contribution of Hindus in over all population of Pakistan. Approximately 94 percent of Hindus are living in Sindh Province, and more than 4 percent are living in Punjab Province of Pakistan, where as a small portion of this population is settled in Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Provinces. This Graph shows that Hindus are contributing more than 4 percent in the over all population of Pakistan. In Sindh Province it confirms that population of Hindus in more than 17 percent. While in Balochistan it’s greater than 1 percent, whereas in Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa it’s less than 1 percent. Region wise population of Hindus in Pakistan SINDH DISTRICT NAME POPULATION JACOBABAD 152,079 SHIKARPUR 47,565 LARKANA 81,963 SUKKUR 89,400 GHOTKI 194,451 KHAIRPUR 136,356 NAUSHERO FEROZ 43,374 NAWABSHAH 92,472 DADU 103,470 HYDERABAD 1,047,501 BADIN 679,269 THATTA 96,417 SANGHAR 878,061 MIRPURKHAS 889,665 UMERKOT 946,185 THARPARKAR 1,109,994 KARACHI-EAST 44,406 KARACHI-WEST 22,911 KARACHI-SOUTH 141,009 KARACHI-CENTRAL 12,717 MALIR 33,261 TOTAL 6,842,526 PUNJAB DISTRICT NAME POPULATION ATTOCK 570 RAWALPINDI 1290 JHELUM 615 CHAKWAL 492 SARGODHA 426 BHAKKAR 99 KHUSHAB 501 MIANWALI 363 FAISALABAD 2709 JHANG 345 TOBA TEK SINGH 594 GUJRANWALA 330 HAFIZABAD 378 GUJRAT 714 MANDI BAHAUDDIN 906 SIALKOT 10731 NAROWAL 3354 LAHORE 4821 KASUR 6345 OKARA 2010 SHEIKHUPURA 3555 VIHARI 1029 SAHIWAL 783 PAK PATTAN 231 MULTAN 3624 LODHRAN 150 KHANEWAL 747 D.G.KHAN 1020 RAJANPUR 1578 LAYYAH 2430 MUZAFFARGARH 3345 BAHAWALPUR 67818 BAHAWALNAGAR 4809 RAHIM YAR KHAN 220518 TOTAL 349,230 KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA DISTRICT NAME POPULATION CHITRAL 6 UPPER DIR 66 LOWER DIR 72 SWAT 474 SHANGLA 42 BUNER 1167 MALAKAND 426 KOHISTAN 18 MANSHERA 216 BATGRAM 351 ABBOTABAD 120 HARIPUR 108 MARDAN 849 SWABI 318 CHARSADDA 312 PESHAWAR 3672 NOWSHERA 1998 KOHAT 2394 HANGU 468 KARAK 30 BANNU 660 LAKKI MARWAT 24 D.I.KHAN 1413 TANK 66 FATA AREA 5763 TOTAL 21033 BALOCHISTAN DISTRICT NAME POPULATION QUETTA 12,525 PISHIN 141 KILLA ABDULLAH 513 CHAGAI 5,823 LORALAI 1,398 BARKHAN 351 KILLA SAIFULLAH 9 ZHOB 303 SIBI 8,628 KOHLU 513 DERA BUGTI 4,197 JAFFARABAD 19,587 NASIRABAD 5,625 BOLAN 13,389 JHAL MAGSI 3,594 KALAT 4,971 MASTUNG 3,684 KHUZDAR 8,886 AWARAN 885 KHARAN 2,340 LASBELA 13,512 KECH 2,937 GAWADAR 2,163 PANJGUR 1,371 TOTAL 117,345 Province Wise Religion Report PROVINCE Bahai Buddist Christian Hindu Parsi Qadiani/Ahmedi Sikh Grand Total KHYBER-PAKHTUNKHWA 3,516 220 28,080 4,209 723 1,149 2,884 40,781 FATA 400 41 1,446 669 16 23 944 3,539 PUNJAB 18,102 786 1,057,071 73,456 262 108,538 1,088 1,259,303 SINDH 7,269 495 228,552 1,423,276 2,787 16,668 1,535 1,680,582 BALUCHISTAN 1,387 177 18,702 23,578 265 549 272 44,930 ISLAMBAD 242 41 40,518 276 16 3,677 13 44,783 GILGIT BALTISTAN 472 5 147 8 16 5 653 AJ & K 1,083 23 987 45 13 1,580 4 3,735 GRAND TOTAL 32,471 1,788 1,375,503 1,525,517 4,082 132,200 6,745 3,078,306
