### census of pakistan, counted the population as following: ....
1951 ---> 372,047,758 33.7 million west 42 million east

1961 ---> 42.8 million west 50 million east
1972 ----> 65.3 million
1981 ----> 83.783 million
1998 ----> 132,352,279
2017 ---> 207,774,520
2023 ---> 241,280,359