India on Wednesday kicked off a mammoth exercise to count its entire population – all 1.4 billion of them, give or take a few, in a census initially delayed by the pandemic then administrative issues.

These are among the 33 questions that more than a billion Indians will be asked as the country launches the world's largest ...

The population count, which was delayed by five years, will include caste enumeration for the first time in a century.

India’s 2027 census will shape how wealth and power is distributed and inform policies around castes and women in the world’s most populous nation.

India’s population is expected to reach 1.52 billion in over a decade with a likely boom in ageing, a government study found. The population of India is expected to grow by 100 million by 2036 from ...

India began the first count of its population in more than a decade at the start of April. The inaugural digital census is ...

India is set to join many other countries around the world that are heading toward a population challenge by 2050. Newsweek ...

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Finally, the Indian government appears to be veering around to the fact that it can’t delay India’s Census any longer. According to reports, it plans to begin conducting the long-delayed population ...

An empowered and unified statistical agency can be expected to run surveys and censuses on time. It can also demand data from other public agencies in a form fit for further statistical analysis ...

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