{"id":227200,"date":"2026-03-18T01:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/central-africa-cameroon-to-launch-first-census-in-two-decades-next-month\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T01:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:55:08","slug":"central-africa-cameroon-to-launch-first-census-in-two-decades-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/central-africa-cameroon-to-launch-first-census-in-two-decades-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Africa: Cameroon to Launch First Census in Two Decades Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Cameroon will begin its fourth General Population and Housing Census on April 24, with field operations running through May 29, marking the country&#8217;s first full census since 2005.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The timeline was set by a decree signed on March 6 by Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute. The population census will be conducted alongside the General Census of Agriculture and Livestock as part of a joint data collection exercise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">The operation ends a process launched in 2015 that faced repeated delays. In the absence of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603170656.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon will begin its fourth General Population and Housing Census on April 24, with field operations running through May 29, marking the country&#8217;s first full census since 2005. The timeline was set by a decree signed on March 6 by Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute. The population census will be conducted alongside the General Census [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":227201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,17726,5934,19685,5741,7670,257,254],"class_list":["post-227200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-census","tag-central","tag-decades","tag-launch","tag-month","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}