Africa-Press – Angola. Around 75 percent of the cartographic update of the province of Lunda-Norte is already in the completion phase, the process of which will define, this year, the areas to be selected in the population census, taking place across the country.
According to the head of Provincial Services at the National Statistics Institute (INE) in Lunda Norte, Leão Cazade, six of the ten municipalities that make up the province have already completed the process.
These are the municipalities of Chitato,’Cambulo, Lucapa,’Capenda Camulemba, Cuango and Xá-muteba, missing Cuilo (Already underway), Lubalo Caungula and Lóvua.
He made it known that the end of the process is scheduled for the end of the current month, with the inclusion of the municipality of Lóvua, which is 80 kilometers from Dundo.
Locally, the preparation of the General Population and Housing Census, scheduled for July, is being carried out by more than 40 cartographic agents.
In August 2023, the province of Lunda-Norte carried out the Pilot Census in 174 census sections, with the aim of testing the level of readiness for intervention of all procedures associated with the operational, logistical, technical-functional and organizational implementation, for the success of the general census.
The process was carried out by 176 census takers, 23 technical assistants, ten cartographers, four IT specialists, among others.
Angola has already carried out two General Population and Housing Censuses, namely in 1970, during colonial times, and in 2014, after national independence, with the 2024 statistical record being the third census operation that the country will carry out.
The 2014 statistical record, the second census operation that the country carried out, indicated that the province of Lunda Norte had, at the time, 862 thousand and 566 inhabitants.
Projections by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) indicate that in 2024, the population of the province of Lunda Norte could reach one million and 150 thousand.
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