The Chairman of the National Population Commission, NPC Nasir Kwarra, has announced plans to conduct Nigeria’s population and housing census in 2025, nearly two decades after the last census in 2006.
He made this known during the 2024 anniversary of the Nairobi Summit on the International Conference on Population and Development held in Abuja on Thursday.
“A major setback that we face is the delay in conducting a Population and Housing Census. A reliable and accurate census is fundamental for a good decision making.
“But the government, at the highest level, is committed to conducting a census, and we believe it will take place next year,” he said.
The announcement came 18 years after Nigeria’s last census in 2006, despite the United Nations’ recommendation for countries to conduct population counts every 10 years.
