March 28, 2024
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North Korea to conduct first census in ten years in 2018, says state media

Project will take place with help from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

North Korea will conduct its first population and housing census in a decade next year, state-run outlet DPRK Today reported on Wednesday.

The DPRK Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) said in the article that the North’s government had carried out censuses twice in the 25 years, in 1993 and 2008.

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