Ghazni Khel Tehsil is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Lakki Marwat District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The tehsil covers an area of 1,153km2 and according to the 2023 census has a total population of 329,775 - of which 165,804 are male and 163,968 are female (the total population in 2017 was 295,984).TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA The number of households in the tehsil is 43,615 of which 42,154 are owned and 809 are rented.Table 25 : HOUSING CHARACTERISTICS BY RESIDENTIAL STATUS, OWNERSHIP AND NUMBER OF ROOMS BY REGION The tehsil forms part of the PK-106 Lakki Marwat-ll electoral constituency.Election Commission of Pakistan
Demography According to the 2023 census, the mother-tongue of residents are as follow: 96 Urdu, 311 Punjabi, 36 Sindhi, 326,571 Pushto, 285 Balochi, 1 Kashmiri, 261 Saraiki, 1 Hindko, 5 Kalasha and 17 others.TABLE 11 : POPULATION BY MOTHER TONGUE, SEX AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023
+ Mother tongues of residents Language Number of speakers Percentage Pushto 326,571 99.69% Punjabi 311 0.09% Balochi 285 0.09% Saraiki 261 0.08% Urdu 96 0.03% Sindhi 36 0.01% Others 17 0.01% Kalasha 5 <0.01% Kashmiri 1 <0.01% Hindko 1 <0.01%
According to the 2023 census, the religious affiliation of residents are as follows: 327099 Muslims, 472 Christians, 4 Ahmadis, and 3 Sikhs.TABLE 9 : POPULATION BY SEX, RELIGION AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS - 2023
+ Religious affiliation of residents Religion Number of adherents Percentage Muslims 327,099 99.85% Christians 472 0.14% Ahmadis 4 0.00% Sikhs 3 0.00%
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