YAOUNDE, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Cameroon is going to conduct a population census next year, the country's Prime Minister's Office said in a statement on Wednesday.
The census will be coupled with the general census of agriculture and livestock, the statement said.
On Tuesday, the country's Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute chaired an interministerial meeting to deliberate on the modalities of the operation.
"I ordered that the timetable for pooled activities be scrupulously respected, before tackling the physical execution of the operation in the first quarter of 2026," Ngute said on his social media platforms early Wednesday.
This will be the fourth general population census the Central African nation will conduct, following previous censuses in 1976, 1987, and 2005.
The 2005 census showed that Cameroon's population was 17,463,836. ■
