Almost half of the population of Pakistan is under the age of 19.
Working under 150, 000 supervisors they administered Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) to children in numbers equal to the entire population of Pakistan (almost 172 million under-five children).
Some 89 percent of the adult population in Pakistan is unbanked and 62 percent use mobile-phone services, notes EasyPaisa spokesman Affan Haider.
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With 56% of Pakistan's population, Punjab dominates the country in more ways than one.
Sindhis make up about a quarter of Pakistan's population, but hold only a couple of the top 50 jobs in the water ministry.
Sunni militant groups have stepped up attacks in the past year against Shiite Muslims who make up about 20 percent of Pakistan's population of 180 million people.
Farmers in Mr Sharif's home province of Punjab, which accounts for over half of Pakistan's population, favour the scheme because it will provide more water for irrigation.
First of all, with its largely illiterate population of 165 million, in most respects Pakistan is a failed state.
However, aligning itself with the U.S. has caused a domestic backlash from what Musharraf says is only a small minority of Pakistan's predominantly Muslim population.
And India's size its population is seven times that of its nearest neighbour, Pakistan has encouraged bullying tendencies.
With its large population of Pakistani origin, it has much at stake in helping to maintain the stability of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Blasphemy is a highly sensitive issue in Pakistan, where 97% of the population are Muslim.
Some 2m refugees returned home last year the biggest population movement since the formation of Bangladesh from what was East Pakistan.
You have to like that as an advertiser because that is more potential consumers than the combined population of the United States, Russia, Japan, Brazil and Pakistan.
At present, over two-thirds of Pakistan's parliamentary constituencies are rural, with the urban population supposedly still a minority.
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