2024 National Population Census

National population census launched

The census will cost K151 million and the government has already made K60 million available for work to start.

Prime Minister James Marape in launching this important event pledged the government’s support to ensure the census is completed and he is expecting some numbers by August this year.

Concerns over census budget

Iduhu made this remark after Prime Minister James Marape released a statement last week on the census, stating that K200 million was allocated to implement the census.

However, after verifying with the application in the 2024 budget, the National Statistics Office (NSO) is only set to receive K100 million, after being allocated K50 million last year.