{"id":278551,"date":"2019-06-10T05:50:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T09:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiWmh0dHBzOi8vbmV3YnVzaW5lc3NldGhpb3BpYS5jb20vaW5zdGFiaWxpdHktZm9yY2VzLWV0aGlvcGlhLXRvLXBvc3Rwb25lLXBvcHVsYXRpb24tY2Vuc3VzL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:19:33","slug":"parliament-and-the-house-of-federation-postponed-ethiopias-population-census-because-of-instability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278551","title":{"rendered":"Parliament and the House of Federation postponed Ethiopia\u2019s population census because of instability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 New Business Ethiopia reported that a joint meeting of Parliament and the House of Federation decided to postpone the national population census because of instability in parts of the country.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-271272\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Parliament and the House of Federation postponed Ethiopia\u2019s population census because of instability\" \/>\n<p>A delayed census mattered for elections, budget shares, and ethnic federal claims, because outdated population numbers shape constituency maps and resource fights, so the postponement was more than a technical statistics delay.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as elections and demography archive, the New Business Ethiopia report dates the mid-2019 decision to put the census on hold.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/instability-forces-ethiopia-to-postpone-population-census\/\">New Business Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instability forces Ethiopia to postpone population census&nbsp;&nbsp;New Business EthiopiaDuring their joint meeting this morning the Ethiopian Parliament and the House of Federation decided to postpone national population census of Ethiopia by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":271272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1asL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755090,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278551\/revisions\/755090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}