Patterns of Distribution of Population in South Asia: A Study of Pakistan (1972-1981)

Abstract

Population distribution in Pakistan is acutely uneven, as only one province of Punjab has got more than 56 % of the total population only 26 per cent of the total area of the country. Combined together with the second largest province of the Sindh, two provinces are having 76.7 % population 43.5 of the total area of the country. On the contrary, area wise largest province of Baluchistan has only 5.2% population inhabiting 43.6 (almost half) of the total area of the country .This gigantic unevenness is a result of natural and human factors.