If the Bhutanese refugee advocate groups are correct, a spot check of a southern gewog should show a massive under-reporting of population.

[citation needed] The CIA World Fact book number has since been adjusted with a note of former inconsistencies, and attributes the difference to the government not including the "first modern census of Bhutan, conducted in 2005".

[9] In the 1970s Bhutan was one of the most isolated countries in the world and nobody knew how many people lived there since no census had ever been taken.

Median age Urbanization[15] Below is a table of Bhutan vital statistics since 1950 published by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

In 2018, Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay announced that the average life expectancy at birth has surpassed 70.