As the world population reach 8 billion today, Timor-Leste’s population in now 1.34 million, this was announced during the launch of 2022 Population and Housing Census preliminary results held at the Ministry of Finance auditorium in Dili.

UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the leading UN agency on sexual and reproductive health, and the Timor-Leste National Medical Stores and Procurement Agency (SAMES) today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Third Party Procurement (TPP) that will give the government of Timor-Leste access to UNFPA’s global supply network to procure lifesaving sexual and reproductive health commodities.

With over 90 per cent of households in Timor-Leste counted, General Department of Statistics (GDS) announced that as at 20 October, 1.3 million people had been enumerated in the first digitalized census in the country