UN to help Myanmar conduct population census

Yangon, March 4 : The UN will help Myanmar conduct its population census by 2014, the first in 30 years, the official media reported Sunday.

The population ministry has sought advice from the UN Fund for Population Activities for holding the census, Xinhua reported quoting the New Light of Myanmar.

U Kyaw Kyaw Win, deputy minister of the ministry, has been named as chairman of the central census committee.

Myanmar's population grew by 2.02 percent between 1998 and 2006. In October last year, its population stood at 60.38 million, the official figures show.

Myanmar conducted its last census in 1983 when its population was 34.12 million. (IANS)

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