| POPULATION BY MOTHER TONGUE | ||||||||
| (In percent) | ||||||||
| Administrative | Urdu | Punjabi | Sindhi | Pushto | Balochi | Saraiki | Others | |
| Unit | ||||||||
| Pakistan | 7.57 | 44.15 | 14.1 | 15.42 | 3.57 | 10.53 | 4.66 | |
| Rural | 1.48 | 42.51 | 16.46 | 18.06 | 3.99 | 12.97 | 4.53 | |
| Urban | 20.22 | 47.56 | 9.20 | 9.94 | 2.69 | 5.46 | 4.93 | |
| N W F P | 0.78 | 0.97 | 0.04 | 73.9 | 0.01 | 3.86 | 20.43 | |
| Rural | 0.24 | 0.24 | 0.02 | 73.98 | 0.01 | 3.99 | 21.52 | |
| Urban | 3.47 | 4.58 | 0.11 | 73.55 | 0.03 | 3.15 | 15.11 | |
| F A T A | 0.18 | 0.23 | 0.01 | 99.1 | 0.04 | - | 0.45 | |
| Rural | 0.18 | 0.18 | 0.01 | 99.15 | 0.04 | - | 0.43 | |
| Urban | 0.18 | 1.85 | * | 97.00 | * | - | 0.96 | |
| Punjab | 4.51 | 75.23 | 0.13 | 1.16 | 0.66 | 17.36 | 0.95 | |
| Rural | 1.99 | 73.63 | 0.15 | 0.87 | 0.90 | 21.44 | 1.02 | |
| Urban | 10.05 | 78.75 | 0.09 | 1.81 | 0.14 | 8.38 | 0.78 | |
| Sindh | 21.05 | 6.99 | 59.73 | 4.19 | 2.11 | 1.00 | 4.93 | |
| Rural | 1.62 | 2.68 | 92.02 | 0.61 | 1.50 | 0.32 | 1.25 | |
| Urban | 41.48 | 11.52 | 25.79 | 7.96 | 2.74 | 1.71 | 8.80 | |
| Balochistan | 0.97 | 2.52 | 5.58 | 29.64 | 54.76 | 2.42 | 4.11 | |
| Rural | 0.21 | 0.43 | 5.27 | 32.16 | 57.55 | 1.87 | 2.51 | |
| Urban | 3.42 | 9.16 | 6.57 | 21.61 | 45.84 | 4.16 | 9.24 | |
| Islamabad | 10.11 | 71.66 | 0.56 | 9.52 | 0.06 | 1.11 | 6.98 | |
| Rural | 2.33 | 83.74 | 0.08 | 7.62 | 0.02 | 0.3 | 5.91 | |
| Urban | 14.18 | 65.36 | 0.81 | 10.51 | 0.08 | 1.53 | 7.53 | |
| * Refers to a very small proportion. | ||||||||
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