Back المسيحية في باكستان Arabic Christentum in Pakistan German Cristianismo en Pakistán Spanish Kristinusko Pakistanissa Finnish Christianisme au Pakistan French Kekristenan di Pakistan ID Cristianesimo in Pakistan Italian 파키스탄의 기독교 Korean Chrześcijaństwo w Pakistanie Polish Христианство в Пакистане Russian
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 Interior of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Karachi | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
 3,300,788 – 1.37% (2023) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Punjab | 2,458,924 – 1.93% |
| Sindh | 546,968 – 0.98% |
| Islamabad Capital Territory | 97,281 – 4.26% |
| Languages | |
Christianity is the third-largest religion in Pakistan, with results from the 2023 Census recording over three million Christians, or 1.37% of the total population in Pakistan.[1] The province of Punjab has the largest population of Christians in the country. The majority of Pakistan's Christians are members of the Catholic Church or the Church of Pakistan, with the remainder belonging to other Protestant groups.[2][3]
Around 75 percent of Pakistan's Christians are rural Punjabi Christians, while some speak Sindhi and Gujarati, with the remainder being the upper and middle class Goan Christians and Anglo-Indians.[4][5]
- ^ "2023 Census Table 9: Religious, Sex, Rural, and Urban Populations" (PDF).
- ^ "Church of Pakistan". www.britannica.com. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
- ^ Country Policy and Information Note Pakistan: Christians and Christian converts. Home Office. 2024. p. 56. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
- ^ Jacobsen, Douglas (21 March 2011). The World's Christians: Who they are, Where they are, and How they got there. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 112–. ISBN 978-1-4443-9729-1.
- ^ Coren, Michael (21 October 2014). Hatred. McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-2385-9.
At [Pakistan's] inception in 1947, Pakistani Christians could be divided in three categories. a) Punjabi rural working-class Anglicans, (b) Catholic urban middle-class Goans in Karachi, and c) White Anglo-Indians who lived in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Quetta and this included both Irish Catholic and English Protestants.