Age & Marriage

Which age groups make up Pakistan’s young-adult population?

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Pakistan’s young-adult population is spread across three large five-year groups in the 2023 Census: about 20.47 million people aged 20–24, 17.97 million aged 25–29, and 15.76 million aged 30–34. The youngest of these groups is the largest, and each successive group is smaller. This age structure helps describe the stages in which education, work, and family formation often occur, without assuming that everyone in those bands is unmarried or seeking a match.

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Government Data · 2023

7th Population and Housing Census 2023

Pakistan Bureau of Statistics

Official census context for population, provinces, urban-rural structure and limits of national demographic claims.View source
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