census
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In Poland's 2021 census, 71 percent of the population identified as Roman Catholic, down from 88 percent 10 years earlier.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Ecuador's latest census found that among its 19 million people, nearly 7.6 million have dogs and cats as pets -- almost double the number of children ages 12 and under.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
And the census is still trying to figure out how to ask questions to sort out race, ethnicity and origins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Just 5% of them lived in one of the 20 largest cities, the smallest percentage found in any census.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Almost all are Tzotzil, a southwestern branch of the Maya; in 1995, the most recent date for which census data are available, about 28,000 did not speak Spanish.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
A file from the 1960s details the plans for collecting the censuses of population in Northern Ireland in both 1961 and 1966.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025
Between the censuses of 2010 and 2020, the number of Americans reporting that they belonged to more than one race jumped by 276%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
At 2.6%, it’s a slight gain over the 2.1% recorded in the 1990, 2000 and 2010 U.S. censuses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
That concern kept detailed caste documentation out of subsequent censuses, including after India gained independence in 1947.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 22, 2024
His Cange census allowed him to begin building files and to create a baseline against which future censuses could measure how well his system was working.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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