census
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Over half of Canada's population reported having European origins, according to the last census, which was taken in 2021.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Blythe’s population of 18,000 in 2022 had fallen to 17,400 by 2024, the last year for which census statistics are available.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
It didn’t let the Commerce Department change the rules with regard to the census.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
But according to the most recent Burning Man census, Samantha is an anomaly.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
For example, at the time of a recent census, Australia’s 17,085,400 people thought so highly of sheep that they kept 161,600,000 of them.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The proposal would change the residence rules used in recent censuses and the definition of “usual residence,” which has long been the standard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
They held six caste censuses between 1871 and 1931 - the last full caste enumeration in India.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 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
But they learned to work around the distortions introduced by the privacy method the Census Bureau used in the 1990, 2000, and 2010 censuses.
From Science Magazine ● May 3, 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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