USAID and UNFPA Join Hands to Support 5th Population and Housing Census 2025

The United State Company for Worldwide Improvement (USAID) has dedicated USD 500,000 to help the preparation of the fifth Inhabitants and Housing Census (PHC) 2025. The funds might be offered via the United Nations Inhabitants Fund (UNFPA).

A PHC is undertaken each ten years to generate a wealth of knowledge, together with specifying numbers of individuals, their geographic distribution, age and intercourse composition, in addition to their dwelling circumstances, and different key socioeconomic traits. The PHC information are vital for good governance, coverage formulation, growth planning, disaster prevention, mitigation and response, social welfare packages, and enterprise market analyses.

Laos, via the Lao Statistics Bureau (LSB), has performed 4 PHCs, with the newest in 2015. Classes realized from earlier PHCs have led to the early planning of the 2025 PHC and using digital innovation for well timed, cost-effective, and high-quality census processes and outcomes. Such progressive applied sciences will embrace, for instance, digital information assortment and using GIS-based census mapping to yield extra rapidly obtainable and better high quality information. 

Mme. Phonesaly Souksavath, Head of Lao Statistics Bureau mentioned: “LSB is a key authorities sector of Laos that has a number one position within the preparation and implementation of the fifth inhabitants and housing census, 2025. I want to congratulate and acknowledge the help from growth companions and donors at nationwide and worldwide ranges to the Lao authorities via bilateral and multi- bilateral frameworks. That is an exemplary cooperation that can considerably contribute to census information assortment, evaluation and dissemination, making certain top quality and well timed disaggregated inhabitants information that meet worldwide requirements.”

Michel Ronning, USAID Nation Consultant to Laos support, “USAID is proud to help LSB to arrange for the fifth Inhabitants and Housing Census. This vital partnership with LSB and UNFPA will help the Laos to make knowledgeable choices on insurance policies and packages that can profit the folks of Laos.” 

The 2025 PHC will observe inhabitants dynamics and supply an proof base for growing and monitoring the ninth and tenth five-year Nationwide Socio-Financial Improvement Plans (NSEDP), the Sustainable Improvement Objectives, and Worldwide Convention on Inhabitants and Improvement Programme of Motion.

Mariam Khan, UNFPA Consultant to Laos mentioned, “The PHC is vital for attaining the collective imaginative and prescient to depart nobody behind and assist Laos monitor and obtain targets set in nationwide and worldwide growth platforms. UNFPA is delighted to welcome USAID as a accomplice in help of the 2025 PHC.” 

Usually, a nationwide census is the one supply of knowledge for figuring out social, demographic, and financial exclusion – As much as 107 of the 231 distinctive indicators of the Sustainable Improvement Objectives require inhabitants information for monitoring and censuses are a key supply.