 The Gambia Bureau of Statistics (GBOS) estimates the population of The Gambia is expected to reach 3.6 million in 20 years.The population of The Gambia has increased each census, starting with 315 thousand in 1963 to 1.8 million in 2013.The GBOS predicted the reason for the increase from 2003 to 2013 was more coverage in the latter census compared to the former's.