Premier Pinda inaugurates population census in Dar es Salaam

Premier Pinda inaugurates population census in Dar es Salaam on Friday

 

By Nasser Kigwangallah

TEN percent of the 44.9 people live in Dar es Salaam which is 10 percent of the population which is a worrisome to policy makers in the country, PM Pinda has said.

He was inaugurating the  2012 census in Dar es Salaam on Friday.

He added that the 2012 PHC revealed that, the population of Tanzania has grown from 12,313,469 persons in the 1967 Census to 44,928,923 persons counted in 2012.

“Dar es Salaam accounts for 10 percent of the total Tanzania Mainland population.” he said.

THE National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) is the Central Statistical Office of Tanzania.

The NBS, as a Government agency, was formed from the former Bureau of Statistics to provide efficient services, giving increased value for money for the benefit of the Government and the public in general.

NBS carries out its activities in a businesslike manner, using commercial financial management and business-planning techniques and is customer focused.

It conducts Censuses and Surveys which yield a wide range of economic, social and demographic statistics.

The General Report on Population Distribution by Administrative Units is the first of a series of publications planned for the 2012 PHC.

The main purpose of the report is to give aggregated totals of population by sex.

The report also provide number of households, average household size, population densities, average annual inter-censal growth rates and sex ratios.

Levels of aggregation are national, regional, district council and ward/shehia.