Editing Sindh (section)

=== Population ===
{{Historical populations
| title = Population history
| type = Pakistan
| direction = vertical
| align = right
| footnote = ''Source: [[Census in Pakistan]], [[Census of British India|Census of British Raj]]''<ref name="sindh1941">{{cite web |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/saoa.crl.28215545 |jstor=saoa.crl.28215545 |access-date=5 May 2024 |title=Census of India, 1941. Vol. 12, Sind |author1=India Census Commissioner |year=1941 |volume=12 |archive-date=29 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230129064845/https://www.jstor.org/stable/saoa.crl.28215545 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{rp|7}}{{efn|name=Sindh1941|1941 figure taken from [[Census in British India|census data]] by combining the total population of all [[Districts of British India|districts]] ([[Dadu District|Dadu]], [[Hyderabad District, Sindh|Hyderabad]], [[Karachi District (Sind)|Karachi]], [[Larkana District|Larkana]], [[Nawabshah District|Nawabshah]], [[Sukkur District|Sukkur]], [[Tharparkar district|Tharparkar]], [[Upper Sind Frontier District|Upper Sind Frontier]]), and one [[princely state]] ([[Khairpur (princely state)|Khairpur]]), in Sindh Province, British India. See 1941 census data here:<ref name="sindh1941"/>}}{{efn|name=Sindh1931|1931 figure taken from [[Census in British India|census data]] by combining the total population of all [[Districts of British India|districts]] ([[Hyderabad District, Sindh|Hyderabad]], [[Karachi District (Sind)|Karachi]], [[Larkana District|Larkana]], [[Nawabshah District|Nawabshah]], [[Sukkur District|Sukkur]], [[Tharparkar district|Tharparkar]], [[Upper Sind Frontier District|Upper Sind Frontier]]), and one [[princely state]] ([[Khairpur (princely state)|Khairpur]]), in Sindh Province, British India. See 1931 census data here:<ref name="sindh1931"/>}}{{efn|name=Sindh1921|1921 figure taken from [[Census in British India|census data]] by combining the total population of all [[Districts of British India|districts]] ([[Hyderabad District, Sindh|Hyderabad]], [[Karachi District (Sind)|Karachi]], [[Larkana District|Larkana]], [[Nawabshah District|Nawabshah]], [[Sukkur District|Sukkur]], [[Tharparkar district|Tharparkar]], [[Upper Sind Frontier District|Upper Sind Frontier]]), and one [[princely state]] ([[Khairpur (princely state)|Khairpur]]), in Sindh Province, British India. See 1921 census data here:<ref name="sindh1921"/>}}{{efn|name=Sindh1911|1911 figure taken from [[Census in British India|census data]] by combining the total population of all [[Districts of British India|districts]] ([[Hyderabad District, Sindh|Hyderabad]], [[Karachi District (Sind)|Karachi]], [[Larkana District|Larkana]], [[Sukkur District|Sukkur]], [[Tharparkar district|Tharparkar]], [[Upper Sind Frontier District|Upper Sind Frontier]]), and one [[princely state]] ([[Khairpur (princely state)|Khairpur]]), in Sindh Province, British India. See 1911 census data here:<ref name="sindh1911"/>}}{{efn|name=Sindh1901|1901 figure taken from [[Census in British India|census data]] by combining the total population of all [[Districts of British India|districts]] ([[Karachi District (Sind)|Karachi]], [[Hyderabad District, Sindh|Hyderabad]], [[Shikarpur District|Shikarpur]], [[Tharparkar district|Tharparkar]], [[Upper Sind Frontier District|Upper Sind Frontier]]), and one [[princely state]] ([[Khairpur (princely state)|Khairpur]]), in Sindh Province, British India. See 1901 census data here:<ref name="sindh1901"/>}}{{efn|name=Sindh1891|1891 figure taken from [[Census in British India|census data]] by combining the total population of all [[Districts of British India|districts]] ([[Karachi District (Sind)|Karachi]], [[Hyderabad District, Sindh|Hyderabad]], [[Shikarpur District|Shikarpur]], [[Tharparkar district|Tharparkar]], [[Upper Sind Frontier District|Upper Sind Frontier]]), and one [[princely state]] ([[Khairpur (princely state)|Khairpur]]), in Sindh Province, British India. See 1891 census data here: <ref name="sindh1891"/>}}{{efn|name=Sindh1881|1881 figure taken from [[Census in British India|census data]] by combining the total population of all [[Districts of British India|districts]] ([[Karachi District (Sind)|Karachi]], [[Hyderabad District, Sindh|Hyderabad]], [[Shikarpur District|Shikarpur]], [[Tharparkar district|Tharparkar]], [[Upper Sind Frontier District|Upper Sind Frontier]]), and one [[princely state]] ([[Khairpur (princely state)|Khairpur]]), in Sindh Province, British India. See 1881 census data here: <ref name="sindh1881"/>}}{{efn|name=Sindh1872|1872 figure taken from [[Census in British India|census data]] by combining the total population of all [[Districts of British India|districts]] ([[Karachi District (Sind)|Karachi]], [[Hyderabad District, Sindh|Hyderabad]], [[Shikarpur District|Shikarpur]], [[Tharparkar district|Tharparkar]], [[Upper Sind Frontier District|Upper Sind Frontier]]), and one [[princely state]] ([[Khairpur (princely state)|Khairpur]]), in Sindh Province, British India. Religious affiliation was not enumerated in [[Khairpur (princely state)|Khairpur]]. See 1872 census data here: <ref name="sindh1872"/>}}
| 1872|2322765
| 1881|2542976
| 1891|3003711
| 1901|3410223
| 1911|3737223
| 1921|3472508
| 1931|4114253
| 1941|4840795
| 1951|6047748
| 1961|8367065
| 1972|14155909
| 1981|19028666
| 1998|29991161
| 2017|47854510
| 2023|55696147
}}

Sindh has the second highest [[List of Pakistani Districts by Human Development Index|Human Development Index]] out of all of Pakistan's provinces at 0.628.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.spdc.org.pk/pubs/rr/rr73.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090521023211/http://www.spdc.org.pk/pubs/rr/rr73.pdf|title=Social Policy and Development Centre &#124;|archive-date=21 May 2009|website=www.spdc.org.pk}}</ref> The [[2023 Pakistani census|2023 Census of Pakistan]] indicated a population of 55.7 million.