A street vendor offers broomsticks around Debre Zeit road in the capital. Addis Abeba has an unknown population size, as the last national census was done 15 years ago. While the last count by the World Bank puts the population count at close to 120 million, data has become rare with the proliferation of conflict in many parts of the country. Despite the dearth of data on precise population data persisting, most sources concur with the claim that around 600,000 people have died in the northern conflict.