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Spokesman for the Ministry of Labor, Immigration and Population of Myanmar said the government is now in the process of putting the final touches to the census data that reveals the population and ethnic communities in the country for publication in early 2017.
The government had refrained from publishing these figures due to controversial discussions, after the 2014 census as Buddhists extremist who claimed that Muslims are on the rise, the census has revealed that the total population of the country is more than 51 million people.
According to the Irrawaddy newspaper, U Myint Kyang, the permanent secretary of the ministry, said on Monday that the government puts the finishing touches on this process during the first four months of 2017, in consultation with ethnic community leaders, the Committee for Ethnic Affairs at the Union level, and experts for further statistical analysis. ” .
He also said that the figures will not be released quickly in order to avoid errors, explaining that these figures will reveal the number of people in each ethnic group at the national level, as well as at the level of the state and the people.
According to the newspaper Irrawaddy, the Myanmar’s the unrecognized groups for citizenship, proof of residence for three generations, but it is difficult for most of these minorities, because the majority of people in Myanmar were without documents before the enactment of laws in 1951.
