August 29, 2024, 10:48 PM
August 29, 2024, 10:48 PM
Peace had 764,617 inhabitants in 201212 years later that figure fell to 755,732, that is 8,885 fewer inhabitantsThe mayor of La Paz is expecting a technical explanation from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) on the difference between the projection that existed and what resulted in the preliminary delivery of results.
“So, if we blindly use the INE projection for 2023, Bolivia should have 13 million right now. We are at 11 million.. And so each department has been making plans,” said the mayor of La Paz, although he also outlined explanations that must be corroborated by the INE technicians.
He said that, as a municipality, they detected that There are more houses but nobody lives in those houses.; two other factors that may affect the measurement, in his opinion, are: the Covid-19 pandemic and the migration of compatriots.
“And the other problem that is worrying me is that Perhaps migration abroad is greater than we are imagining. We do not have that data yet. Suddenly we were going to be 13 million, but suddenly 2 (million) have gone abroad,” he concluded, and that is why he requested information that must have a coherent explanation, because not only in La Paz, but in the rest of the departmental capitals, population figures different from those projected are observed.
He said the same thing happens in the municipalities of the axis, The municipality of Santa Cruz only increased by 150 thousand inhabitants in 12 years; the same thing happens with Cochabamba, which only increased by 29 thousand inhabitants at this time.
He said that the case of El Alto is extremely striking, because Only 36,195 inhabitants increased at this time. However, in the case of the department of La Paz, it can be observed that rural municipalities have more population than they had 12 years ago, despite the rural-urban migration that exists.
Before the census, which was conducted in March of this year, Rural municipalities decided to force their inhabitants to return for the day of the national survey and the interprovincial terminal of El Alto was packed with travelers to the provinces; while municipal officials asked to stay for the census.
In the case of La Paz, the neighboring municipalities of Palca, Mecapaca, Mallasa and Achocalla They saw an increase in inhabitants compared to the 2012 census, according to the preliminary review, the increase is between 4 to 7 thousand inhabitants.
