ZIMSTAT, which was formerly known as the Central Statistical Office, has counted the number of Zimbabweans every 10 years since the first census in 1982. Acting director of the government data agency General Moffat Nyoni said it was making frantic efforts to raises funds and other resources from Treasury and possibly donors to ensure a successful census.
We are still engaging government our traditional sponsor and other potential supporters to make this process a success, Nyoni said on Friday
He said an exercise launched last year to draw household maps that will be used during the census was progressing well despite resource restrictions.
He said: We began the mapping exercise during the second quarter of last year and our main challenge during this preparatory stage for the census is transport which has delayed some of our exercises. Previous censuses have shown Zimbabwes population increasing with the 2002 enumeration exercise putting the number of people in the country at around 12 million.
But analysts expect the next census to show either a drop in population growth or stagnation after a political and economic crisis drove at least three million people or a quarter of the countrys population to foreign countries in search for jobs and better leaving conditions.
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