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Population
Border countries: Afghanistan 2,430 km, China 523 km, India 2,912 km, Iran 909 km
_0-14 years: 36.7% (male 33,037,943/female 31,092,572)
_15-64 years: 59.1% (male 53,658,173/female 49,500,786)
_65 years and over: 4.2% (male 3,495,350/female 3,793,734) (2010 est.)
_Population growth rate 1.589% (2010 est.)
_25.3 births/1,000 population
_7.06 deaths/1,000 population
_-2.36 migrant(s)/1,000 population
_Urban population: 36% of total population (2008)
_Rate of urbanization: 3% annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)
_Infant mortality total: 65.32 deaths/1,000 live births
_Punjabi 44.68%, Pashtun (Pathan) 15.42%, Sindhi 14.1%, Sariaki 8.38%, Muhajirs _7.57%, Balochi 3.57%, other 6.28%
_The 9th Largest English Speaking Nation in the world and the 3rd largest in Asia


Education
_ Literacy rate in the country has improved remarkably from previous 56% to 57
_Literacy remained higher in urban areas (74%) than in rural areas (48%),
_For men (69%) compared to women (45%)
_Literacy rate in Punjab is (59 %), Sindh, (59%), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (50%) and Balochistan at (45%)
_Pakistan produces about 445,000 university graduates per year.
_National University of Science and Technology ranked at 260 and Quaid-e-Azam University ranked at 270.(among top 600)
_Pakistan is signatory to the “Dakar Declaration” of 2003 to achieve 85 percent literacy rate by 2015
_Education Budget For 2009-2010 (31 Billion Rupees – 2.6%)
_Education For all Programme (Rs 2 Billion)
_Primary school enrolment was less than 70percent and even in this, as many as 30 percent get dropped out before acquiring basic literacy skills.
_The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan recognizes 132 institutions of which 73 are public universities and 59 are private universities
_Less than 8 percent of the work force receives formal training.

Economy
_ Budget outlay for 2010-11 is Rs 3259 billion.
_GDP Per capita purchasing power parity (PPP) $2,600- 139th in world (2010 est.)( 3,400 india, 4900 srilanka)
_GDP composition agriculture: 21.8%, industry: 23.6%, services: 54.6%
_Labour force 55.77 million country comparison to the world: 10
_ Unemployment rate 15% (2010 est.) world: 150 14% (2009 est.)
_Public Debt 49.9% of GDP (2010 est.)
_inflation rate 13.4% (2010 est.)
_ reserves of foreign exchange $16.1 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
_external debt $57.21 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
_Stock of FDI $30.09 billion (31 December 2010 est.)

War on terror
_ 75 per cent of the US/NATO supplies pass through Pakistan
_ More than 120,000 of its troops in the rugged mountainous tribal areas
_ more than 3,000 of its soldiers lost their lives in the tribal areas.( 1340 US in afg)
_ Pakistan established more than 1,500 checkpoints at Afghan border check illegal cross-border movement.
_ Pakistan is the only US ally to captured or killed more than 700 Al-Qaeda members
_ As per latest report, Pakistan witnessed 2,148 terrorist attacks in which more than 7,997 people lost their lives and more than 9,670 were injured
_ In 2008, Pakistan witnessed more than 63 suicide attacks that left more than 697 people dead and over 2,130 injured
_ 222 Drone attacks, since 2004, killed 2,189


Sources: CIA Fact Book, Wikipedia, Defence forum, statpak