Kingdom’s numbers rise as census puts population at over 15 million

Provisional census figures released on Wednesday show that as of March 3, Cambodia’s population stood at 15,288,489 people – 7,869,912 women and 7,418,577 men – a 14.1 per cent increase since the previous census 11 years ago. Minister of Interior Sar Kheng, who is also chairman of the Census Committee, said while announcing the results on Wednesday that the population had slowly increased because of the rising birth rate, but the rate of growth was declining. …

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