Pakistan getting New Zealand like population annually

[FalconsForPeace]

The annual increase in Pakistan's population is at per with total population of New Zealand and the country would face water crisis, other challenges if Vision 2025 and 11th Five-Year Plan 2013-18 could not be implemented in letter and spirit.
This was said by Federal Minister for Planning and Development and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal who was addressing at a consultative conference jointly organised by the Ministry of Planning and Development and Reforms, Government of Pakistan and Planning and Development Department, Government of Balochistan in connection with Pakistan Vision 2025 and 11th Five-Year Plan 2013-18, here on Monday.

Balochistan Chief Minister, Dr Abdul Malik Baloch, Chief Secretary, Babar Yaqoob Fateh Muhammad, Opposition leader in the Balochistan Assembly, Maulana Abdul Wasey, Provincial Minister for Planning and Development, Hamid Khan Achakzai and other officials were present.

"The population of Pakistan is increasing annually at per with total population of New Zealand and no proper planning has triggered crisis of electricity, gas and other issues," the federal minister said, adding that the country would face water crisis in upcoming years if immediate attention was not paid to resolve the issue through a comprehensive planning.

He said that seven themes of the Pakistan Vision 2025 include energy security, self reliance, inclusive and sustainable growth, human and social capital, value addition and competitiveness in productive sector, modernization of infrastructure and region connectivity, promotion of small medium enterprises and private sector led growth and security, institutional and democratic governance.

"The Vision 2025 is the country's long-term development blueprint which aims to create a globally competitive and prosperous country providing a high quality of life for all its citizens," he said.

He said that the priority areas of the Vision 2025 and 11th Five-Year Plan 2013-18 include sustained and inclusive higher growth in a stable macroeconomic environment, modernization of existing infrastructure, improving competitiveness in industry and trade, institutional and governance reforms and human social capital.

"Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif aims at transforming Pakistan into a developed and export-led economy with strong social values by converting Pakistan's diverse cultural and ethnic heritage into its strength through promoting inclusiveness, peace, security and greater inter-provincial harmony," he said, adding that the Premier Nawaz has also directed to focus on sustainable development in Balochistan.

Pakistan getting New Zealand like population annually

 

[Ahmad1996]

Send more than the five million Afghan refugees back and everything will be back to normal.

 

[Bhai Zakir]

Best of luck for the growth now achieve now Australia.

 

[Fracker]

Pakistani Population Growth rate has been dropped tremendously... it's from 3.4% to 1.7% this year. So if we are growing one new-Zealand a year, it's not Pakistan's issue but New-Zealand for being so small country.

 

[slapshot]

Send more than the five million Afghan refugees back and everything will be back to normal.

Or maybe ask them to bring their native land under our Flag As nation is growing we need more space

 

[Skies]

Start working with family planning massively through NGOs and Govt., encourage using contraceptives/

We know the disgusting burden of ultra-overpopulation here, so check it now, otherwise your own countrymen would start hating your own country, and the demand and crisis would follow accordingly and could bring more inter-state violence.

 

[xyxmt]

we need to start **** pakai taza roti again, if you know what i mean
although that was just a rumor but it needs to be real this time

 

[W.11]

with such population we should have invaded new zealand and the sorrounding micronesian islands long time ago

 

[Chronos]

For some reason I read this as Pakistan getting New Zealand.

Was getting ready to receive my new Pakistani overlords

 

[Commander T]

Send more than the five million Afghan refugees back and everything will be back to normal.

ya, because they work extremly hard to increse population...........

 

[Cyberian]

Ma'Shah'Allah, this is great news. I pray Islamisc Republic of Pakistan reaches the One Billion mark by 2050.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

If it were increasing by the number of sheep in New Zealand I'd be worried.

 

[FaujHistorian]

Focusing on population increase as a sole discussion parameter is the biggest $tupidity.

every large country with population around 200 mil or more will add signficantly large number of people to its population.

Such talk starts with numbers and quickly goes down to the midsection with points about condoms as such

That's just like imagining nay having sex, Vicariously!


The problem is how you put your population to work.

This is what Pakistani nation should be asked to do, and not how much more or how much less our population should be.


Peace


p.s. Not to start a country based war of words. Just curious if one should also check other large countries like China and India and how many New Zealands are they adding

 

[shuntmaster]

Census in Pakistan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Census in Pakistan is conducted decennially across the entire nation. The first census was conducted after independence in 1951, and later in 1961, 1972, 1981, and 1998. The 1971 census was delayed one year due to war with India, while the census in 1998 was delayed due to political issues.Pakistan's next national census was scheduled to take place in 2008, and later in 2010 but the plan could not materialize. There were multiple census counts completed for the latest round, with even the latest April 2012 results, subsequently being thrown out as "unreliable". A UN led census is to be conducted with staff training and GPS digitization.

So, there is no official census done in Pakistan since 1998..

Census: let the genie out of the bottle

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has approved the holding of a census pending approval from the Council of Common Interests (CCI) as stipulated in Part II of the Federal Legislative List item (9) of the Constitution. The census seeks to collate data on (i) demographic and social characteristics that include age, sex, relationship to the head of the household, religion, language and nationality, (ii) educational characteristics include level of education completed and the field of education, (iii) geographical/migration characteristics, (iv) economic characteristics include district of birth, district of residence and reason for migration, (v) fertility/mortality rates, and (vi) miscellaneous including the nature and type of disability and holding of CNIC by persons 18 years or over.

The CCI gives an edge to the government in power given that its chair is the Prime Minister who is empowered to nominate three members from the federal government; the four chief ministers are also members of the CCI and in the event that all four belong to the opposition there can be a deadlock in the CCI given that Article 154 (4) of the Constitution states that "the decisions of the council shall be expressed in terms of the opinion of the majority". However, this is not the case at present and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif can easily garner the majority required to ensure approval by the CCI for the census. The current composition of the CCI implies that while the PML-N-led government would have the majority vote on any proposal yet it also includes two other national parties given that the Sindh Chief Minister is from the Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians while the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister is from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf. Regional parties that failed to secure sufficient seats in the provincial assembly to have administrative control of a province are not included in the CCI notably the MQM, JI and the JUI (F).

It is indeed unfortunate that the government has not called a CCI meeting as per Article 154 (3) of Constitution which states that "the council shall have a permanent Secretariat and shall meet once every ninety days." This delay is leading many critics to conclude that the present government, like its predecessors, is procrastinating in terms of holding a census. What is inexplicable is that while federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar acknowledges the importance of accurate and timely data, indicated by his decision to release quarterly macroeconomic data to ensure that the government can take appropriate mitigating measures in time, he does not seem to be too pushed about the census. Surely Dar must be aware of the fact that a census is critical to formulating appropriate economic policies.

The reason for this reluctance is the fact that a census would have major political implications for the federation given that a census maps the total population of any ethnic group as well as in localities/areas where the population has risen by more than in other locations which is integral to (i) successfully carrying out the delimitation exercise, (the government has been directed by the Election Commission of Pakistan to carry out this exercise before the next general elections), and (ii) a change in the numbers of any ethnic group would have implications for the number of federal and provincial government jobs available to an ethnic group. Thus a census has major political implications in Pakistan which explains why there was resistance to holding a census from 1990 onwards.

There was a census every ten years, as envisaged, during the first half century of the country's existence. The first census was held in 1951, the second in 1961, the third in 1972 (the one year delay was attributed to the war with India) and the fourth in 1981. Thenceforth the census became controversial and the 1998 census was the last one held. It has been 15 years since the last census and one hopes that the government does initiate action in this regard on an emergent basis. Last but not least, there is a widely-held perception that country's population has increased in a highly significant manner between 1998 and 2013. According to this perception, the province of Balochistan has witnessed the highest population growth and Punjab the least!

Copyright Business Recorder, 2013

Rs 8b, deployment of 250,000 troopers for census demanded
Dated: 2014-01-27


ISLAMABAD: All relevant institutions pertaining to census in Country have asked government for Rs 8 billion, and voluntary cooperation, services of 2,50,000 Army personnel.

Talking exclusively to Online on Sunday, the head of census organization, (PCO) Habib ullah Khattak has said that if government encourages, the process of census could began within 4 to 5 months , rendering interim results after 120 days.
He said that census was carried out in 1998, while during 2011, a house census was initiated, but within 15 years no census was ever carried out; which was more important than surveys, especially for delimitations.

Replying to a question he assured that 5 months would be required for all preparations, which include asking for maps from revenue departments and other related institutions, transport system and services of teachers among others. He also outlined 15 to 20-day training for staff who would be required to gather relevant census data during house-to-house visits.

Replying to a question, he agreed about almost daily worsening security situation, but cited the growing international pressure from international forums, for census, which “we want to be accomplished at earliest”.

“ECP (Election Commission of Pakistan) was also stressing for census, since delimitations for Provincial and federal constituencies could only be made after census” he said, adding that the issue of census was included in the agenda of forthcoming meeting of CCI (Council of Common Interests) summoned by Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif.

 

[shuntmaster]

Population shoots up by 47 percent since 1998
Abdul Sattar KhanThursday, March 29, 2012
LAHORE: Balochistan witnessed the highest and the Punjab the lowest increase in population from 1998 to 2011, with the country's overall population shooting up to an alarming 46.9 percent.
Households witnessed an increase of 50.4 percent during the period, according to preliminary results of housing listing 2011.
As compared to the population of 130,857,717 in 1998, the overall population was recorded at 192,288,944 in 2011 all over Pakistan, excluding three districts of Balochistan (Khuzdar, Kech and Panjgur) Agency of Fata (South Waziristan) as well as Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ&K) and Gilgit-Baltistan.


However, with the inclusion of population of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan, the population of the country would reach 197,361,691 in 2011 against 134,714,017 in 1998, showing an increase of 46.5 percent.

The highest increase in population was witnessed in Balochistan, followed by Sindh, Fata, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the federal capital while the Punjab province witnessed the lowest increase in population as compared to the other provinces.

In terms of percentage, the highest 139.3 percent increase in population was witnessed in Balochistan (from 5,501,164 to 13,162,222) followed by Sindh where the population increased by 81.5 percent (from 30,439,893 to 55,245,497).

Similarly, the population of Fata has increased by 62.1 percent (from 2,746,490 to 4,452,913), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by 51.6 percent (from 17,743,645 to 26,896,829), federal capital Islamabad by 43 percent (from 805,235 to 1,151,868) while the population of Punjab witnessed the lowest 24.1 percent increase (from 73,621,290 to 91,379,615).

The population of Azad Jammu and Kashmir witnessedan increase of just 1.54 percent from 2,972,501 in 1998 to 3,631,224 in 2001 whereas the population of Gilgit Baltistan increased by 63.1 percent from 883,799 to 1,441,523.

On the other hand, the number of households throughout the country increased from 18,934,880 in 1998 to 28,478,642 in 2011, showing an increase of 50.4 percent.

The highest increase of 109.2 percent in households was witnessed in Balochistan where the number of households increased from 760,633 to 1,609,995, followed by Sindh where the households increased from 4,997,134 to 9,191,907, showing an increase of 83.5 percent.

The number of households in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa increased by 45.8 percent (from 2,210,455 to 3,223,371), followed by the federal capital, Islamabad, where the number of households increased by 36.9 percent from (128,753 to 176,280).

Similarly, the number of households in the Punjab increased from 10,537,323 to 13,911,812 (32 percent) whereas in Fata the households increased from 291,582 to 365,277 (25.3%).

In the AJK, the number of households increased by 38.1 percent from 406,033 to 560,720 and in Gilgit Baltistan by 49.9 percent from 109,318 to 163,887.

As far as population proportion is concerned, 13.99 percent of the total population of the country has been reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2011, 2.32 in Fata, 47.52 in the Punjab, 28.73 percent in Sindh, 6.85 percent in Balochistan and 0.60 percent in Islamabad.

According to the 1998 census, the population in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was 13.41 percent of the total population, 2.40 percent in Fata, 55.60 percent in the Punjab, 22.9 percent in Sindh, 4.9 percent in Balochistan and 0.6 percent in Islamabad, the data revealed.

According to data, average household size has decreased from 6.9 in 1998 to 6.8 in 2011.The average of household size decreased from 7.0 to 6.6 in the Punjab, from 6.1 to 6.0 in Sindh.

However, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it increased from 8.0 in 1998 to 8.3, in Fata from 9.4 to 12.2, in Balochistan from 7.1 to 8.2 whereas the average household size increased from 6.3 to 6.5 in capital Islamabad.