As of the 2023 census, present Muzaffargarh district has 552,926 households and a population of 3,528,567. The district has a sex ratio of 104.18 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 43.74%: 51.38% for males and 35.74% for females. 1,185,064 (33.60% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. 662,975 (18.79%) live in urban areas.

! colspan="2" |2017

! colspan="2" |2023

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!

!

!

!

!

!

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| Islam 15px

|360,868

|

|2,977,231

|

|3,515,344

|99.68%

|-

| Hinduism 15px

|53,458

|

|332

|

|288

|0.01%

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| Sikhism 15px

|3,280

|

|

|

|65

|~0%

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| Christianity 15px

|162

|

|2,565

|

|10,122

|0.29%

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|Ahmadi

|

|

|845

|

|734

|0.02%

|-

| Others

|426

|

|75

|~

|89

|~0%

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!Total Population

!418,194

!

!2,981,048

!

!3,526,642

!100%

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| colspan="7" |

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{| class="wikitable sortable"

|+ Religious groups in Muzaffargarh District (British Punjab province era)

! rowspan="2" |Religious<br>group

! colspan="2" |1881

! colspan="2" |1891

! colspan="2" |1901

! colspan="2" |1911

! colspan="2" |1921

! colspan="2" |1931

! colspan="2" |1941

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!

!

!

!

!

!

!

!

!

!

!

!

!

!

|-

! Islam 15px

| 292,476

|

| 327,727

|

| 350,177

|

| 494,915

|

| 493,369

|

| 513,265

|

| 616,074

|

|-

! Hinduism 15px

| 43,297

|

| 50,625

|

| 52,221

|

| 68,158

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| 69,878

|

| 72,577

|

| 90,643

|

|-

! Sikhism 15px

| 2,788

|

| 2,715

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| 3,225

|

| 6,322

|

| 4,869

|

| 5,287

|

| 5,882

|

|-

! Christianity 15px

| 33

|

| 27

|

| 33

|

| 60

|

| 356

|

| 246

|

| 227

|

|-

! Jainism 15px

| 11

|

| 1

|

| 0

|

| 1

|

| 6

|

| 0

|

| 0

|

|-

! Zoroastrianism 15px

| 0

|

| 0

|

| 0

|

| 4

|

| 0

|

| 0

|

| 0

|

|-

! Buddhism 15px

| 0

|

| 0

|

| 0

|

| 1

|

| 0

|

| 0

|

| 23

|

|-

! Judaism 15px

|

|

| 0

|

| 0

|

| 0

|

| 0

|

| 0

|

| 0

|

|-

! Others

| 0

|

| 0

|

| 0

|

| 0

|

| 0

|

| 0

|

| 0

|

|-

! Total population

! 338,605

!

! 381,095

!

! 405,656

!

! 569,461

!

! 568,478

!

! 591,375

!

! 712,849

!

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| colspan="15" |

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{| class="wikitable sortable"

|+ Religion in the Tehsils of Muzaffargarh District (1921)

Ethnicity

The most famous tribes and races are as under; Khar (offshoot of Kharal tribe), Khokhar, Dasti, Qureshi, Jatoi, Hinjra, Langrial, Thahim, Gopang, Bukhari, Gilani, Rajput, Jat and Arain. The major ethnic group are the Saraiki-speaking Jat forming the majority, with Saraiki-speaking Gujjar, Baloch, Rajputs and Pathan groups in minority.

Education

Although Muzaffargarh is one of the oldest and largest districts of Pakistan by area and population, it still has only a single campus of Virtual University of Pakistan. The literacy rate is among the lowest in the country. District Muzaffargarh has a total of 1,072 male and 1,009 female public sector schools.

Notable people

  • Milkha Singh, Indian track and field athlete
  • Dasti family, a political family
  • Abdul Hamid Khan Dasti
  • Jamshed Dasti
  • Amjad Hameed Khan Dasti
  • Khar family, feudal lords and politicians
  • Ghulam Mustafa Khar
  • Ghulam Murtaza Raheem Khar
  • Ghulam Noor Rabbani Khar
  • Malik Ghulam Arbi Khar
  • Safina Saima Khar

Notes

References

sv:Muzaffargarh