Table 1.
Estimated numbers of female sex workers (FSWs) by typology in four cities in Pakistan in 2011.
| Province | City | BBFSWs | SBFSWs | HBFSWs | KKFSWs | CBFSWs | Other FSWs | Total FSWs | FSWs/1000 adult males | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||||
| Punjab | DG Khan | 0 | 0.0 | 53 | 3.8 | 939 | 66.5 | 387 | 27.4 | 34 | 2.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 1413 | 13.3 |
| Faisalabad | 0 | 0.0 | 882 | 18.2 | 2887 | 59.6 | 878 | 18.1 | 59 | 1.2 | 140 | 2.9 | 4846 | 5 | |
| Lahore | 350 | 1.5 | 4597 | 19.3 | 12 683 | 53.4 | 5303 | 22.3 | 579 | 2.4 | 254 | 1.1 | 23 766 | 11.5 | |
| Multan | 148 | 2.8 | 448 | 8.4 | 2754 | 51.9 | 1449 | 27.3 | 171 | 3.2 | 338 | 6.4 | 5308 | 8 | |
| Rawalpindi | 0 | 0.0 | 748 | 20.6 | 1955 | 53.8 | 851 | 23.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 81 | 2.2 | 3635 | 3.4 | |
| Sargodha | 80 | 2.1 | 1621 | 41.6 | 1022 | 26.2 | 990 | 25.4 | 82 | 2.1 | 103 | 2.6 | 3898 | 12.5 | |
| Sind | Hyderabad | 220 | 4.8 | 887 | 19.4 | 1707 | 37.4 | 978 | 21.4 | 601 | 13.2 | 173 | 3.8 | 4566 | 8.5 |
| Karachi | 175 | 0.7 | 6298 | 24.8 | 10 915 | 43.0 | 7138 | 28.1 | 763 | 3.0 | 110 | 0.4 | 25 399 | 5.5 | |
| Larkana | 125 | 11.2 | 15 | 1.3 | 701 | 62.9 | 41 | 3.7 | 232 | 20.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 1114 | 8.2 | |
| Mirpurkhas | 0 | 0.0 | 222 | 25.1 | 356 | 40.3 | 183 | 20.7 | 20 | 2.3 | 103 | 11.7 | 884 | 8.5 | |
| Nawabshah | 170 | 8.5 | 525 | 26.1 | 839 | 41.7 | 146 | 7.3 | 331 | 16.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 2011 | 14.2 | |
| Sukkur | 0 | 0.0 | 350 | 15.1 | 1326 | 57.2 | 260 | 11.2 | 308 | 13.3 | 73 | 3.2 | 2317 | 10.5 | |
| KPK | Haripur | 0 | 0.0 | 346 | 11.6 | 611 | 20.4 | 230 | 7.7 | 521 | 17.4 | 1286 | 43.0 | 2994 | 11.9 |
| Peshawar | 0 | 0.0 | 529 | 15.9 | 1032 | 31.1 | 722 | 21.8 | 1013 | 30.5 | 21 | 0.6 | 3317 | 4.2 | |
| Balochistan | Quetta | 0 | 0.0 | 754 | 20.3 | 1586 | 42.7 | 1370 | 36.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3710 | 10.7 |
| Total | 1268 | 1.4 | 18 275 | 20.5 | 41 313 | 46.3 | 20 926 | 23.5 | 4714 | 5.3 | 2682 | 3.0 | 89 178 | 7.2 | |
BBFSWs, brothel-based FSWs; CBFSW, cell phone-based FSWs; HBFSWs, home-based FSWs; KKFSW, kothikhana-based FSWs; KPK, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; SBFSWs, street-based sex workers.