MONROVIA, LIBERIA-The Liberian Government has announced preliminary results of the National Housing and Population Census conducted late last year.

The Ac ting Director General of the Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS), Lawrence George, said:” The preliminary results put Liberia’s population at five-million-two-hundred-forty-eight-thousand-six-hundred-forty-one.”

Mr. George said the male population is two-million-six-hundred-four-thousand-fifty, constituting fifty-point-four-percent, while the female population is two-million-six-hundred-four-thousand-one-hundred-seventy-one, amounting to forty-nine-point-six percent.

He said the inter-census population growth rate is three-point-zero-percent, with an average household size of four-point-four-percent.

The last population census conducted in 2008 put the Country at three-point-five-million people.