A population census covers everyone in the country at the same time and serves as benchmark dataon population and its characteristics. It provides a snapshot of the number of people, their demographic characteristics, their spatial distribution and economic characteristics, as at a reference date, for all administrative areas up to the lowest level i.e village.
Publication
Brief 1: The 5th Population and Housing Census of Lao PDR
No. of pages: 3
Publication date: March 2021
Author: UNFPA Laos