[8][betterĀ sourceĀ needed] There were multiple census counts completed for the latest round in April 2012,[9][10] but were subsequently thrown out as being "unreliable".[16][17] In 1951, minorities constituted 14.4% of the Pakistani population (this includes East Pakistan, today Bangladesh).The 2017 Census of Pakistan was a detailed enumeration of the Pakistani population which began on 15 March 2017 and ended on 25 May 2017.It was the first census taken in the country in the 21st century, nineteen years after the previous one in 1998, and it was carried out by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.[note 2] The results also marked a significantly higher result compared to estimations made of the Pakistani population before the census, which had previously estimated the Pakistani population in 2017 to be between 195 million and 200 million.