1998 Pakistan Census
The 1998 Pakistan Census is a detailed enumeration of the Pakistani population held in 1998 by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, an agency of the Government of Pakistan. According to the 1998 census, the population of Pakistan was 130,857,717. With the inclusion of the population of Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, the population was 134,714,017 in 1998.
City Results
This is the list of population of cities of Pakistan in 1998 census vs 2017 census.| Rank | City | Population | Population | Province |
| 1 | Karachi | 9,339,023 | 14,910,352 | Sindh |
| 2 | Lahore | 5,143,495 | 11,126,285 | Punjab |
| 3 | Faisalabad | 1,977,246 | 3,203,846 | Punjab |
| 4 | Rawalpindi | 1,406,214 | 2,098,231 | Punjab |
| 5 | Peshawar | 1,405,150 | 1,970,042 | Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa |
| 6 | Multan | 1,182,441 | 1,197,384 | Punjab |
| 7 | Hyderabad | 1,151,274 | 1,732,693 | Sindh |
| 8 | Gujranwala | 1,124,799 | 2,027,001 | Punjab |
| 9 | Quetta | 565,514 | 1,001,205 | Balochistan |
| 10 | Islamabad | 529,180 | 1,014,825 | Islamabad Capital Territory |