Nigeria is planning a census in 2023, 16 years after the last exercise.
Ms Muella, the keynote speaker at the event, said that population data is critical for decision making to drive sustainable development “and long term development is critical, because it enables us to monitor achievements of sub-national national and global level data.”
“If we have data, we have an accountability framework for what it is we want to achieve. When we have data, we can hold governments and ourselves accountable to the commitment and pledges that we have made. “Data also supports effective formulation of policies. It is the backbone of good governance. It is the backbone of good planning.”
She explained that population data can tell where to expect the next security, humanitarian crisis, and natural disasters. “We know there’s going to be flooding. And we do know that if we use our data available to us for all the satellite images, and we have the right population data, we know what population is going to be affected and we can actually go in and mitigate the risk,” she said.
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