Melvy Vargas

Melvy Vargas is a demographer who has recently been in the news for expressing concerns regarding the completeness and accuracy of the 2024 Censo de Población y Vivienda data released by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) in Bolivia. She highlighted anomalies in the population statistics, particularly noting an unusually high percentage of adults over 18 compared to electoral rolls, which raised questions about the census methodology and data integrity.