Census

Counting a billion people: Inside India’s mega census exercise

Sukhwinder Kaur, a census enumerator and a school teacher, collects details of housing and amenities during a door-to-door survey in the first phase of the census at a residential area in New Delhi.

India begins counting over 1 billion people in digital census

The population count – the country’s first in 15 years – will deploy about 3.3 million officials to collect information on more than a billion people.

3 million Indian officials to begin counting world’s largest population

Commuters crowd on a platform as they wait to board suburban trains at a railway station in Mumbai, India, January 20, 2023. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni

Trump directs Commerce Department to create new US Census

Mr Trump said the population count should be “based on modern day facts and figures” and results of the 2024 presidential election.

Catholicism shrinks in Brazil as evangelical faith surges

FILE PHOTO: Hooded Catholic faithful walk in the Torch Procession, known as Fogareu, during the Holy Week in Goias, State of Goias, Brazil April 16, 2025. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo

Canada’s Filipino community hit hard by truck-ramming that killed 11 during cultural festival

People visit a memorial site two days after a vehicle was driven into a crowd at a Filipino community Lapu Lapu Day block party, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada April 28, 2025. REUTERS/David Ryder

Calls mount to redraw electoral boundaries across India to ensure fair representation

India’s prosperity, demography and political priorities vary across its 28 states and union territories.

US imports from Canada, Mexico in 2024 as tariff threat looms

FILE PHOTO: Commercial trucks head towards the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Pacific Highway Port of Entry from south Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, November 26, 2024. REUTERS/Jennifer Gauthier/File Photo

Myanmar says 2024 census shows population of 51.3 million slightly smaller than 10 years ago

FILE PHOTO: Two boys take photos of the Sule Pagoda during sunset hours in Yangon, Myanmar, January 23, 2020. REUTERS/Ann Wang/File photo

Iraq's population reaches 45.4 million in first census in over 30 years

A member of an Iraqi Planning Ministry team carries out the national population census, during a two-day curfew imposed for it to take place, in Baghdad, Iraq November 20, 2024. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad/File Photo

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