Facts and Figures:
Islamic Republic of Pakistan
President: Gen. Pervez Musharraf
(2001)
Prime minister (caretaker): Shaukat
Aziz (2004)
Area: 310,401 sq mi (803,940 sq km)1
Population (2005 est.): 162,419,946
(growth rate: 2.0%); birth rate: 30.4
/1000; infant mortality rate: 72.4/1000;
life expectancy: 63.0; density per sq
mi: 523
Capital (2003 est.): Islamabad,
601,600
Largest cities: Karachi, 10,573,200;
Lahore, 5,756,100; Faisalabad
(Lyallpur), 2,247,700; Rawalpindi,
1,598,600; Gujranwala, 1,384,100
Monetary unit: Pakistan rupee
Principal languages: Punjabi 48%,
Sindhi 12%, Siraiki (a Punjabi variant)
10%, Pashtu 8%, Urdu (official) 8%,
Balochi 3%, Hindko 2%, Brahui 1%,
English, Burushaski, and others 8%
Ethnicity/race: Punjabi, Sindhi,
Pashtun (Pathan), Baloch, Muhajir
(immigrants from India and their
descendants)
Religions: Islam 97% (Sunni 77%,
Shiite 20%); Christian, Hindu, and
other 3%
Literacy rate: 46% (2003 est.)
Economic summary GDP/PPP (2004
est.): $347.3 billion; per capita $2,200.
Real growth rate: 6.1%. Inflation: 4.8%
(FY03/04 est.). Unemployment: 8.3%
plus substantial underemployment.
Arable land: 28%. Agriculture: cotton,
wheat, rice, sugarcane, fruits,
vegetables; milk, beef, mutton, eggs.
Labor force: 45.43 million; note:
extensive export of labor, mostly to the
Middle East, and use of child labor;
agriculture 42%, industry 20%,
services 38% (2004 est.). Industries:
textiles and apparel, food processing,
pharmaceuticals, construction
materials, paper products, fertilizer,
shrimp. Natural resources: land,
extensive natural gas reserves, limited
petroleum, poor quality coal, iron ore,
copper, salt, limestone. Exports:
$15.07 billion (f.o.b., 2004 est.):
textiles (garments, bed linen, cotton
cloth, and yarn), rice, leather goods,
sports goods, chemicals,
manufactures, carpets and rugs.
Imports: $14.01 billion (f.o.b., 2004
est.): petroleum, petroleum products,
machinery, plastics, transportation
equipment, edible oils, paper and
paperboard, iron and steel, tea. Major
trading partners: U.S., UAE, UK,
Germany, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia,
China, Japan, Kuwait, U.S., Malaysia,
Singapore (2003).
Communications: Telephones: main
lines in use: 2.861 million (March
1999); mobile cellular: 158,000
(1998). Radio broadcast stations: AM
27, FM 1, shortwave 21 (1998).
Radios: 13.5 million (1997). Television
broadcast stations: 22 (plus seven low-
power repeaters) (1997). Televisions:
3.1 million (1997). Internet Service
Providers (ISPs): 30 (2000). Internet
users: 1.2 million (2000).
Transportation: Railways: total: 8,163
km (2002). Highways: total: 254,410
km; paved: 109,396 km (including 339
km of expressways); unpaved:
145,014 km (1999). Ports and
harbors: Karachi, Port Muhammad bin
Qasim. Airports: 124 (2002).
International disputes: thousands of
Afghan refugees still reside in
Pakistan; isolating terrain and close
ties among Pashtuns in Pakistan
make cross-border activities difficult to
control; armed stand-off with India over
the status and sovereignty of Kashmir
continues—India objects to Pakistan
ceding lands to China in 1965
boundary agreement that India
believes are part of disputed Kashmir;
disputes with India over Indus River
water sharing and the terminus of the
Rann of Kutch, which prevents
maritime boundary delimitation.
Islamic Republic of Pakistan
President: Gen. Pervez Musharraf
(2001)
Prime minister (caretaker): Shaukat
Aziz (2004)
Area: 310,401 sq mi (803,940 sq km)1
Population (2005 est.): 162,419,946
(growth rate: 2.0%); birth rate: 30.4
/1000; infant mortality rate: 72.4/1000;
life expectancy: 63.0; density per sq
mi: 523
Capital (2003 est.): Islamabad,
601,600
Largest cities: Karachi, 10,573,200;
Lahore, 5,756,100; Faisalabad
(Lyallpur), 2,247,700; Rawalpindi,
1,598,600; Gujranwala, 1,384,100
Monetary unit: Pakistan rupee
Principal languages: Punjabi 48%,
Sindhi 12%, Siraiki (a Punjabi variant)
10%, Pashtu 8%, Urdu (official) 8%,
Balochi 3%, Hindko 2%, Brahui 1%,
English, Burushaski, and others 8%
Ethnicity/race: Punjabi, Sindhi,
Pashtun (Pathan), Baloch, Muhajir
(immigrants from India and their
descendants)
Religions: Islam 97% (Sunni 77%,
Shiite 20%); Christian, Hindu, and
other 3%
Literacy rate: 46% (2003 est.)
Economic summary GDP/PPP (2004
est.): $347.3 billion; per capita $2,200.
Real growth rate: 6.1%. Inflation: 4.8%
(FY03/04 est.). Unemployment: 8.3%
plus substantial underemployment.
Arable land: 28%. Agriculture: cotton,
wheat, rice, sugarcane, fruits,
vegetables; milk, beef, mutton, eggs.
Labor force: 45.43 million; note:
extensive export of labor, mostly to the
Middle East, and use of child labor;
agriculture 42%, industry 20%,
services 38% (2004 est.). Industries:
textiles and apparel, food processing,
pharmaceuticals, construction
materials, paper products, fertilizer,
shrimp. Natural resources: land,
extensive natural gas reserves, limited
petroleum, poor quality coal, iron ore,
copper, salt, limestone. Exports:
$15.07 billion (f.o.b., 2004 est.):
textiles (garments, bed linen, cotton
cloth, and yarn), rice, leather goods,
sports goods, chemicals,
manufactures, carpets and rugs.
Imports: $14.01 billion (f.o.b., 2004
est.): petroleum, petroleum products,
machinery, plastics, transportation
equipment, edible oils, paper and
paperboard, iron and steel, tea. Major
trading partners: U.S., UAE, UK,
Germany, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia,
China, Japan, Kuwait, U.S., Malaysia,
Singapore (2003).
Communications: Telephones: main
lines in use: 2.861 million (March
1999); mobile cellular: 158,000
(1998). Radio broadcast stations: AM
27, FM 1, shortwave 21 (1998).
Radios: 13.5 million (1997). Television
broadcast stations: 22 (plus seven low-
power repeaters) (1997). Televisions:
3.1 million (1997). Internet Service
Providers (ISPs): 30 (2000). Internet
users: 1.2 million (2000).
Transportation: Railways: total: 8,163
km (2002). Highways: total: 254,410
km; paved: 109,396 km (including 339
km of expressways); unpaved:
145,014 km (1999). Ports and
harbors: Karachi, Port Muhammad bin
Qasim. Airports: 124 (2002).
International disputes: thousands of
Afghan refugees still reside in
Pakistan; isolating terrain and close
ties among Pashtuns in Pakistan
make cross-border activities difficult to
control; armed stand-off with India over
the status and sovereignty of Kashmir
continues—India objects to Pakistan
ceding lands to China in 1965
boundary agreement that India
believes are part of disputed Kashmir;
disputes with India over Indus River
water sharing and the terminus of the
Rann of Kutch, which prevents
maritime boundary delimitation.
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