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Early figures paint picture of population boom
ISLAMABAD: Torghar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has emerged as the only district in the country where population has seen a decline in 19 years, provisional census results showed.
According to the provisional figures, Torghar district in KP’s north-east had 174,682 residents in 1998, which declined to 171,395 in 2017.
Among the other 23 districts of KP, Peshawar division has emerged to be the most populated region, registering an increase of 113 per cent from a population of 2.02m in 1998 to 4.26m in 2017.