Tanzanians will go through a population census in the next seven days.
The Tanzanian government has declared Tuesday a National holiday in order to aim the said exercise.
Tanzania conducts a census every 10 years and this year’s is going to be the sixth since independence from Britain.
In the 2012 census, results indicated there were 43,625,354 million people in Tanzania mainland and 1,303,569 in Tanzania Zanzibar.
UN data estimates Tanzania’s 2020 population to be almost 60 million.
Tanzanian President Samia Hassan was among the first to be counted followed her Veep: