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Rwanda to conduct fresh population census on Aug. 16-30
1 Rwanda is set to conduct the fifth Population and Housing Census from Aug. 16 to 30, a government official said.
2 All required preparations had been put in place for a seamless census, Venant Habarugira, director of the Censuses Department, at the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR), told Xinhua.
3 “Various census technical and administrative structures have been put in place to ensure a successful census operation.
4 “The census will enable us to know the actual number of people residing in Rwanda, the dwelling structure and materials owned by the households.
5 “This as well as to analyse the social and economic situation of the population,’’ Habarugira said.
6 Be said the census would also indicate population growth in the country, including fertility, mortality and migration.
7 Habarugira said the census data would help the government to improve planning and resource distribution, among others.
8 “The NISR is engaged in an awareness campaign to ensure public participation in the census,” he said.
9 Provisional census data would be announced in December and final results would be out in December 2023, according to the NISR.
10 Rwanda conducts a population census every 10 years.
11 The last one was held in August 2012. (
