-As Number Increased by 1.78 Million from 3.4 Million in 2008;
IPNEWS – Liberians have now reached 5,248,621. This is according to the Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS) as it releases ‘provisional results’ of the 2022 Liberia National Population and Housing Census (LNPHC).
This means that the West African nation’s population increased by 1.78 million human beings from 3.4 million in 2008 when the last national census was conducted, during the reign of former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
The new figure of 5.2 million was obtained from a census that was conducted last December 2022 by and through LISGIS and with support from the country’s international development partners.
It wasn’t Liberians who multiplied in their tiny space of 43,000 mi2, but also their largest West African neighbor — Nigeria. Nigerians increased by 156 percent: from 4,696 in 2008 to 12,018 in 2023. The population of our immediate neighbors, La Côte d’Ivoire dropped by 43% from 9180 in 2008 to 5266 in 2022.
Further in the provisional results, Liberia’s Statistics House reports that with the trend that the population increment is moving upward, by 2046, i.e., in 23 years, Liberia’s population would double.
“That would mean more strain on public utilities, etc,” said Mr. Chea Sanford Wisseh, National Consultant, 2022 LNPHC.
