For months the population figure that everyone in the public sphere has been using is 333,000. That's the figure that was posted on the Statistical Institute of Belize's website, a projection we presume based on population growth trends.
Well now, the institute has news for us all. According to results published from the 2010 census the population is 312,000, up from 240,000 in the year two - thousand. That's an annual growth rate of just 2.65%.
While that finding has many shaking their heads, another is raising eyebrows. IT says that the average house-hold size decreased from 4.5 to 3.9 persons per household.
The full report will be presented at the end of this month.
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