Pakistan launches its first-ever digital census

Pakistan launches its first-ever digital census

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Category : International Published on: March 04 2023

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  • Pakistan launched its first-ever digital population and housing census in an effort to securely gather demographic data on every individual ahead of this year's parliamentary elections.
  • The digital count will provide data for policy decisions, which now are based on the 2017 census that counted the population at 207 million people.
  • The digital census is being carried out by the PBS. It has the support of the National Technology Council (NTC), National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), provincial governments as well as the armed forces.
  • For the first time, transgender people will be calculated in the census, the Pakistani government said.
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