census
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According to the 2021 Australian census, the Indigenous population was approximately 37% of the study's estimated median population in 1788.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Yi said he cross-checks census records against school enrollments, hospital births, vaccine batches and household registrations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
She lives in Montreal which has a large Moroccan diaspora of about 104,000 people, according to the 2016 census.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The 2020 census places Black Angelenos at just 8% of the city’s population, the fifth census in a row where the community’s share has shrunk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
“There is no census for white sharks. We have no idea how many young sharks, middle-aged sharks, and old sharks there are. A balance would tell us there is a healthy...”
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
Researchers believe those lower estimates were influenced by the widespread population losses caused by disease, frontier violence, and systemic oppression before the earliest Australian censuses were conducted.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
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
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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