Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican government yesterday approved the holding of the general population and housing census from 1 to 15 August 2027, to be carried out for the first time through digital platforms and with the results available within six months.
“The [census] will allow us to effectively determine how many children we have, how many young people, adults and the elderly, and therefore allow us to speak with certainty about the development process and to better plan the different dynamics and different needs that the populations have in relation to our country,” Council of Ministers spokesperson Inocêncio Impissa said at the end of the cabinet meeting in Maputo.
Impissa said that the 2027 population census would, for the first time, be conducted entirely electronically, with the results known in six months.
“Mozambique has adopted the model of conducting a population census every ten years to understand the territorial population dynamics which occur, in order to understand who we are, where we are, how we are and where each person actually is, and then, with the results that this will give us, allow the government to define better policies,” Impissa added.
The census “will help to better plan to solve the problems of the population”, he insisted.
The National Institute of Statistics (INE) estimates the Mozambican population at 34 million in 2025, compared to 27.1 million in the last census, carried out in 2017.
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