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

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.

The previous census conducted in India was in 2011 and recorded a population of 1.21 billion. It is now estimated to be more ...

The previous census in 2011 recorded a population of 1.21 billion. It’s now estimated to be more than 1.4 billion, making ...

The two-phase exercise - the world’s most ambitious - will see three million officials count every Indian.

By Shivangi Acharya NEW DELHI, March 30 (Reuters) - More than 3 million Indian officials are to spend a year counting every single person in the world's most populous nation, a mammoth task delayed in ...

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

India, the world’s most populous nation with over 1.4 billion people, has launched a massive census operation involving more ...

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

India has begun its long-delayed national census, a policy-shaping exercise that will collect a wide range of data and, for ...

The world's most populous country has launched a fully digital census which involves millions of enumerators and also allows ...

India has the highest population in the world, which currently stands at around 1.43 billion, followed by China at 1.41 billion. Considering the Indian population, it is no surprise that it is the ...