Tanzania Holds Population Census

The Tanzanian government has commenced its population census.

The government says the exercise is vital for national plans.

However, a national holiday has been declared to allow citizens participate in the exercise fully.

Tanzania conducts a census every 10 years and this year is going to be the sixth since independence from Britain.

In the 2012 census, results indicated there were 43,625,354 million people in Tanzania mainland and 1,303,569 in Tanzania Zanzibar.

UN data estimates Tanzania’s 2020 population to be almost 60 million.

President, Samia Hassan was among the first to be counted.

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