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Population in Pakistan compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Pakistan was 251,269,164 in 2024 vs 69,226,000 people in the United Kingdom in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Pakistan's population is 258,497,127 people compared to 69,945,462 in the United Kingdom.

Population statistics:

  • Pakistan's population is 3.7 times bigger than the United Kingdom's.
  • Pakistan is ranked the 5th most populous country in the world, while the United Kingdom is the 22nd.
  • The countries together account for 3.97% of the world: 3.13% for Pakistan vs 0.85% for the United Kingdom.
  • For the last 10 years, Pakistan has had an average growth rate of +1.6% per year vs +0.7% in the United Kingdom.
  • Since 2005, the population of Pakistan has increased from 175M people to 258M (47.3% growth), while the United Kingdom has grown from 60.4M to 69.9M (15.8% growth).
  • Pakistan is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 511M people compared to the peak of 76.2M people in 2072 for the United Kingdom.

Pakistan vs United Kingdom: live population counter

Pakistan United Kingdom
Current population
258497127
69945462
Population rank 5/197 22/197
Percent of world population 3.13% 0.85%
One net population change
8.38 seconds
43 seconds
One birth every
4.58 seconds
45.9 seconds
One death every
19.7 seconds
48.4 seconds
One migration net change every
22.5 seconds
1.26 minutes
Annual migration change -1,401,173 +417,114
Daily growth/decline +10,314 +2,011
Annual growth/decline +3,764,669 +734,000
Annual growth/decline rate +1.52% +1.07%
Population growth rate rank 73/197 99/197

Pakistan and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Pakistan
Population

Growth rate
United Kingdom
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Pakistan United Kingdom Pakistan United Kingdom
1960 45,709,310 52,400,000 - -
1961 46,921,277 52,800,000 2.65% 0.76%
1962 48,156,128 53,250,000 2.63% 0.85%
1963 49,447,776 53,650,000 2.68% 0.75%
1964 50,799,999 54,000,000 2.73% 0.65%
1965 52,209,010 54,348,050 2.77% 0.64%
1966 53,678,667 54,648,500 2.81% 0.55%
1967 55,214,768 54,943,600 2.86% 0.54%
1968 56,810,507 55,211,700 2.89% 0.49%
1969 58,460,939 55,441,750 2.91% 0.42%
1970 60,166,719 55,663,250 2.92% 0.4%
1971 61,847,899 55,896,223 2.79% 0.42%
1972 63,583,194 56,086,065 2.81% 0.34%
1973 65,461,912 56,194,527 2.95% 0.19%
1974 67,415,487 56,229,974 2.98% 0.06%
1975 69,461,175 56,225,800 3.03% -0.007%
1976 71,620,254 56,211,968 3.11% -0.02%
1977 73,901,827 56,193,492 3.19% -0.03%
1978 76,307,379 56,196,504 3.26% 0.005%
1979 78,997,039 56,246,951 3.52% 0.09%
1980 82,291,010 56,314,216 4.17% 0.12%
1981 85,802,049 56,333,829 4.27% 0.03%
1982 89,089,246 56,313,641 3.83% -0.04%
1983 92,227,711 56,332,848 3.52% 0.03%
1984 95,164,936 56,422,072 3.18% 0.16%
1985 98,229,285 56,550,268 3.22% 0.23%
1986 101,606,764 56,681,396 3.44% 0.23%
1987 105,130,717 56,802,050 3.47% 0.21%
1988 108,724,739 56,928,327 3.42% 0.22%
1989 112,336,629 57,076,711 3.32% 0.26%
1990 116,155,576 57,247,586 3.4% 0.3%
1991 120,060,406 57,424,897 3.36% 0.31%
1992 123,546,848 57,580,402 2.9% 0.27%
1993 127,020,117 57,718,614 2.81% 0.24%
1994 130,748,083 57,865,745 2.93% 0.25%
1995 134,582,253 58,019,030 2.93% 0.26%
1996 138,557,092 58,166,950 2.95% 0.25%
1997 142,531,804 58,316,954 2.87% 0.26%
1998 146,522,356 58,487,141 2.8% 0.29%
1999 150,565,377 58,682,466 2.76% 0.33%
2000 154,879,127 58,892,514 2.87% 0.36%
2001 159,270,907 59,119,673 2.84% 0.39%
2002 163,222,549 59,370,479 2.48% 0.42%
2003 167,110,248 59,647,577 2.38% 0.47%
2004 171,286,000 59,987,905 2.5% 0.57%
2005 175,453,212 60,401,206 2.43% 0.69%
2006 179,682,690 60,846,820 2.41% 0.74%
2007 184,493,231 61,322,463 2.68% 0.78%
2008 189,499,113 61,806,995 2.71% 0.79%
2009 194,376,534 62,276,270 2.57% 0.76%
2010 199,239,047 62,766,365 2.5% 0.79%
2011 203,746,065 63,258,810 2.26% 0.78%
2012 207,667,125 63,711,000 1.92% 0.71%
2013 211,073,978 64,139,000 1.64% 0.67%
2014 214,264,647 64,620,000 1.51% 0.75%
2015 217,290,883 65,088,000 1.41% 0.72%
2016 220,138,869 65,607,000 1.31% 0.8%
2017 223,273,967 65,966,000 1.42% 0.55%
2018 226,928,892 66,289,000 1.64% 0.49%
2019 230,800,899 66,631,000 1.71% 0.52%
2020 235,001,746 66,744,000 1.82% 0.17%
2021 239,477,801 66,984,000 1.9% 0.36%
2022 243,700,667 67,604,000 1.76% 0.93%
2023 247,504,495 68,492,000 1.56% 1.31%
2024 251,269,164 69,226,000 1.52% 1.07%
2025 255,219,564 69,639,673 1.57% 0.6%
2026 259,299,796 70,020,350 1.6% 0.55%
2027 263,515,827 70,382,853 1.63% 0.52%
2028 267,881,923 70,732,699 1.66% 0.5%
2029 272,337,520 71,061,482 1.66% 0.46%
2030 276,883,261 71,377,535 1.67% 0.44%
2031 281,528,070 71,678,351 1.68% 0.42%
2032 286,241,141 71,959,934 1.67% 0.39%
2033 291,012,268 72,234,509 1.67% 0.38%
2034 295,820,153 72,497,650 1.65% 0.36%
2035 300,643,518 72,749,096 1.63% 0.35%
2036 305,491,504 72,990,847 1.61% 0.33%
2037 310,353,293 73,218,850 1.59% 0.31%
2038 315,227,709 73,441,349 1.57% 0.3%
2039 320,105,882 73,658,392 1.55% 0.3%
2040 324,937,703 73,868,334 1.51% 0.29%
2041 329,746,478 74,074,316 1.48% 0.28%
2042 334,551,874 74,275,779 1.46% 0.27%
2043 339,334,851 74,475,035 1.43% 0.27%
2044 344,095,467 74,667,284 1.4% 0.26%
2045 348,837,732 74,848,605 1.38% 0.24%
2046 353,552,859 75,020,949 1.35% 0.23%
2047 358,207,159 75,184,478 1.32% 0.22%
2048 362,796,532 75,337,543 1.28% 0.2%
2049 367,344,429 75,476,141 1.25% 0.18%
2050 371,863,804 75,600,588 1.23% 0.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Pakistan increased by 41,837,671 people (a 23.8% growth), while the United Kingdom gained 4,686,794 people (a 7.76% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Pakistan gained 41,206,244 (a 19% growth), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,857,462 (a 7.46% growth).

Pakistan was ranked 6th most populous country in 2005 and is 5th in 2025. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2005 and ranked 22nd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Pakistan's population will grow by 43.9% to 371,863,804 people with a rank change from 5th to 4th. The population of the United Kingdom will increase by 8.09% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.

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