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The entrance to Pakistan's Badshahi Mosque, or “imperial mosque,” as viewed from the mosque courtyard. Built by the Emperor Aurangzeb between 1671 and 1673, it remains the largest mosque of the Mughal period; its courtyard can accommodate 100,000 worshippers. The gateway leads out to the garden known as Hazuri Bagh, beyond which is the Alamgiri gate of the Lahore Fort.
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Geography

Area

comparison ranking: total 37

Area - comparative

Area comparison map:
<p>slightly more than five times the size of Georgia; slightly less than twice the size of California</p>

People and Society

Age structure

2024 population pyramid:
This is the population pyramid for Pakistan. A population pyramid illustrates the age and sex structure of a country's population and may provide insights about political and social stability, as well as economic development. The population is distributed along the horizontal axis, with males shown on the left and females on the right. The male and female populations are broken down into 5-year age groups represented as horizontal bars along the vertical axis, with the youngest age groups at the bottom and the oldest at the top. The shape of the population pyramid gradually evolves over time based on fertility, mortality, and international migration trends. <br/><br/>For additional information, please see the entry for Population pyramid on the Definitions and Notes page.

Median age

comparison ranking: total 180

Population growth rate

comparison ranking: 46

Birth rate

comparison ranking: 45

Death rate

comparison ranking: 159

Net migration rate

comparison ranking: 148

Maternal mortality ratio

comparison ranking: 48

Infant mortality rate

comparison ranking: total 18

Total fertility rate

comparison ranking: 40

Tobacco use

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Environment

Government

Economy

Real GDP growth rate

comparison ranking: 113

Real GDP per capita

comparison ranking: 171

Labor force

comparison ranking: 7

Unemployment rate

comparison ranking: 97

Current account balance

comparison ranking: 61

Exports

comparison ranking: 73

Imports

comparison ranking: 59

Debt - external

comparison ranking: 12

Energy

Communications

Transportation

Airports

comparison ranking: 45

Heliports

comparison ranking: 41

Merchant marine

comparison ranking: total 113

Military and Security

Space

Terrorism

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