(KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government today officially informed the national assembly of the census results weeks after they were released.
The Sudanese minister for presidential affairs Bakri Hassan Saleh told the parliament that the fifth census is a “unique” undertaking performed “with complete transparency and under international supervision”.
The total of Sudan’s population is 39,154,490, with 8,260,490 living in the south. Khartoum’s population is estimated at 5,074,321 followed by South Darfur state at 4,039,594; Al-Jazeera state is in the third place with 3,575,280 followed by North Kordofan with 2,920,992.
Saleh acknowledged that some areas including the South, Darfur and Halayeb (Egyptian borders) were not covered by the census but stressed that the coverage rate was 94%.
The outcome of the fifth census is now rejected by the Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) which requested a political agreement over the issue but the dominant National Congress Party (NCP) says that the southern Sudan ruling party has to accept the internationally monitored results.
But the Sudanese official said that the census process was “purely technical” with no politics involved.
In a related matter the head of the Central Bureau of Statistics head Yassin Al-Haj Abdeen was quoted by the official news agency (SUNA) as saying that the census results show that Sudan is a “youthful state”.
Abdeen revealed that 54% of the population is between the ages of 15-64 while those over 65 years account for 3.5%.
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