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New Estimates and Projections of Population Growth in Pakistan

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  • Griffith Feeney
  • Iqbal Alam

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Pakistan's population growth rate rose steadily from about 2.6 percent per annum in the early 1960s to a high of about 3.5 percent during the late 1980s. Since then it has declined to an estimated 2.1 percent for 2003. Growth rates calculated from the population censuses, which show a very different picture, are distorted by differential accuracy of enumeration. During the period of rising growth rates, fertility was constant at just under 7 children per woman while life expectancy at birth rose by nearly 20 years. Fertility decline began in the late 1980s, bringing the population growth rate down with it. Remarkably, there appears to have been little change in life expectancy over the past 15 years.

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  • Griffith Feeney & Iqbal Alam, 2003. "New Estimates and Projections of Population Growth in Pakistan," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., vol. 29(3), pages 483-492, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:popdev:v:29:y:2003:i:3:p:483-492
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2003.00483.x
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    1. Fasih Ahmed & Muhammad Nawaz & Aisha Jadoon, 2022. "Topic Modeling of the Pakistani Economy in English Newspapers via Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)," SAGE Open, , vol. 12(1), pages 21582440221, March.
    2. Naveed Zafar Janjua & Bushra Mahmood & Junaid A Bhatti & M Imran Khan, 2015. "Association of Household and Community Socioeconomic Position and Urbanicity with Underweight and Overweight among Women in Pakistan," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(4), pages 1-15, April.
    3. Faisal Abbas & Haroon Sarwar Awan, 2018. "What Determines Health Status of Population in Pakistan?," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 139(1), pages 1-23, August.

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