The 2015 Census of Population and Housing of Lao PDR was conducted in March 2015 with 1st of March as the census reference date. This is the fourth in a series of decennial censuses conducted during the post-independence era. Previous censuses were carried out in 2005, 1995 and 1985. Included in the census enumeration of 2015 are: all Lao citizens who usually reside in the country; Lao citizens who are temporarily residing abroad; citizens of foreign countries who reside in Laos at the time of the census.
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Publication
Provisional Report of the 4th Lao Population and Housing Census 2015
Provisional Report of the 4th Lao Population and Housing Census 2015
No. of pages: 64
Publication date: December 2015
Author: Lao Statistics Bureau