ISLAMABAD (Kashmir English): A total of 227 million citizens are registered with the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), amounting to 97% of the country’s total population.
This was revealed in the NADRA’s annual report submitted to the Ministry of Interior.
According to the report, over 31m births registered with Union Councils are yet to be added to Nadra’s central database.
NADRA spokesperson
A NADRA spokesperson gave a gender-wise bifurcation of the registered citizens, of which 48% are women and 52% are men.
Furthermore, the authority, he added, possesses a facial recognition record of 170 million citizens along with 1.68 billion fingerprints and seven million retinal scans.
The authority witnessed an 11% overall increase in registration, 18% surge in childbirth registrations along with 8% increase in that of women.
With a total of 938 Nadra registration centres operational in the country, 75 new registration centres were established in 2025 along with 138 new counters.
Additionally, the Pak ID mobile application has taken over 15% of Nadra’s responsibility, with its downloads surpassing 12 million, the report said.
