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Among the accusations made against the census were that the Sudanese government deliberately manipulated the census in oil-rich regions such as the Abyei district, on the border between northern Sudan and southern Sudan. Another complication is the large population of South Sudanese refugees in the north.
The census counted the Southern Sudan population at 8.26 million; [186] [187] however, Southern Sudanese officials rejected the census results of Southern Sudan because "the central bureau of statistics in Khartoum refused to share the national Sudan raw census data with the southern Sudan centre for census, statistics and evaluation". [188]
The town of Torit, where the county headquarters are located, lies approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi), by road, east of Juba, the capital and largest city in South Sudan. [4] The coordinates of Torit County are: 4° 30' 0.00"N, 32° 30' 0.00"E (Latitude: 4.5000; Longitude: 32.5000).
According to the Fifth Population and Housing Census of Sudan, conducted in April 2008, Makuach boma had a population of 5,555 people, composed of 2,721 male and 2,834 female residents. [ 1 ] [ note 1 ]
According to the Fifth Population and Housing Census of Sudan, conducted in April 2008, Chuei Magon boma had a population of 8,640 people, composed of 4,659 male and 3,981 female residents. [2] [note 1]
Rank Region HDI (2022) Low human development 1 Central Equatoria 0.459 2 Western Equatoria 0.426 3 Upper Nile: 0.422 4 Western Bahr el Ghazal 0.412 – South Sudan 0.381
In late 2010, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir announced that if Southern Sudan voted for independence, Sudan would fully adopt sharia as the basis for law. [6] President Salva Kiir Mayardit and the SPLA disputed the results of the 2008 Sudanese census, which claimed Southern Sudan accounted for 21 percent of the population. The SPLA insisted ...
Demographics of Sudan (without South Sudan), Data of Our World in Data, year 2022; Number of inhabitants in millions. Achieving good counts of the population is difficult in Sudan, because conducting a census has been difficult due to various conflicts and wars in the southern, eastern and western regions of Sudan over the past few decades.