This investigation combines population, civil-registry, and social-affairs data to frame the service and protection burden facing Libya's government in 2026. An edited version should become a transparent baseline table showing source year, definition, coverage, and uncertainty for every indicator.

7.7–7.9m people

7.7–7.9 million people — population range stated in the post

The analysis

This investigation combines population, civil-registry, and social-affairs data to frame the service and protection burden facing Libya's government in 2026. An edited version should become a transparent baseline table showing source year, definition, coverage, and uncertainty for every indicator.

What the public record establishes

The linked records provide the institutional and numerical frame for this investigation. They support a documented reading, but do not automatically prove every causal claim or allegation. Do not merge civil-registry counts, resident-population estimates, and benefit-recipient registers as if they measured the same population. Show the reference year and confidence interval for every estimate; the post's growth range differs materially from the latest World Bank series. Avoid publishing personally identifiable registry or social-assistance data.

What remains unanswered

The public-interest test is what the responsible institutions publish next: the underlying decision, transaction-level data, implementation record and a response that can be checked against the evidence in this social-justice file.

Editorial method: This investigation rebuilds the original calculation from the linked public records, preserves the source period and transaction stage, and separates documented figures from estimates, interpretation and allegations.

Mohamed Algarj