Briefing Note on Population Estimation Survey - Nov. 2013

The last successful attempts to gather data on Somalia’s population through a census were made in 1975 and 1985/86. However, several challenges had beset both endeavors, with scant data being released from the rst census and the results for the second attempt remaining unpublished. Since then, development partners have made several ad hoc attempts to obtain reliable and acceptable gures on the population size and distribution, but with no success.