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Lhe may be found in the heart of a controversy. The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) announced that at 1er January 2024 The number of Mahorais was close to 320,000. Local elected officials do not believe it and the bombing of 500,000 circulates. In these exchanges, the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, questions the results of the Institute. He says: “For the moment, there is no reliable census in Mayotte. »» What to think?

From the departmentalization, the inhabitants of Mayotte were interested in the statistics by which the State counts them. They campaigned for the methods used by the Institute of Statistics to be the same as those of the Metropolis, considering that to be a full -fledged department it must be quantified in the same way as the others.

The census, which provides crucial information because the budgetary allocation paid by the State to the municipalities depends on it, has not escaped the debate. Local elected officials militated so that the old INSEE method consisting in carrying out a single operation every five years at best is replaced by the rotating method, which has been used in metropolitan France since 2004 and which provides updated data to a Annual rate. It is this method that has been at work in the field since 2021 in Mayotte.

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