A new farm survey tallied 1,726,000 household agricultural holdings in Cambodia or 50.2 per cent of all 3,438,000 households, as counted by the Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey 2017.
The latest Cambodia Inter-censal Agriculture Survey 2019 (CIAS 2019) noted that 88 per cent of household agricultural holdings engaged in crop activity, while 75 per cent reported raising livestock, poultry or insects.
CIAS 2019 is the first large-scale survey of the agriculture sector since the Census of Agriculture in Cambodia 2013, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a press statement.
With a report on its findings poised for launch on February 9, FAO said the census is funded by the Cambodian government, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), FAO and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Phnom Penh has the highest population density in the country with 3,361 people per square kilometre of land according to the census report. Yousos Apdoulrashim
Cambodia’s population hits 15.5M: Latest census
Tue, 26 January 2021
The National Committee for the General Population Census announced on January 26 that the Cambodian population had risen to 15.5 million, an increase of 16 per cent from the 2008 census figure of 13.4 million people.
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng, who is also chairman of the committee, said more than 50,000 census officials had contacted 3.5 million families to gather information across the country.
Officials from the Ministry of Planning’s National Institute of Statistics have revised and analysed data in collaboration with technical officials and international experts to complete the census on-time despite the challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic.