Content_paragraphs:  UNMISS also hosted and provided protection to internally displaced persons in
  
  the protection of civilian sites. As at 13 February, the total population in the five
  
  UNMISS protection of civilian sites was 188,528 internally displaced persons,
  
  including 93,103 women and girls: 40,250 aged between 0 and 4 years (including
  
  19,652 girls), 64,395 aged between 5 and 17 years (including 31,461girls), 74,061
  
  aged between 18 and 59 years (including 36,263 women) and 9,822 aged 60 years
  
  and above (including 5,727 women). During the current reporting period the
  
  population of the sites increased by 8,162 individuals, from 180,366 to 188,528.
  
  Several factors contributed to the increase, including new births; the merging of
  
  
  
   
  S/2020/145
  
   
  
  9/18 20-02613
  
   
  
  households in protection of civilian sites 1 and 3 and the Bor protection of civilian
  
  site; the population head count conducted for Wau in December 2019 and Bentiu sites
  
  in January 2020; and the biometric registration conducted for the Malakal site in
  
  January 2020.