Tag: census

• Thursday, December 12th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

  Uruguay census reveals rising single-person households and declining rural population

  

  The National Statistics Institute (INE) of Uruguay has published the final data from the 2023 national census, highlighting key demographic shifts in the country. Uruguay’s population has grown slightly, reaching 3,499,451 people, up from 3,412,636 in 2011.

• Friday, September 1st 2023 - 08:20 UTC

  Paraguay's population below 2015 projections, census shows

  

  Paraguay's National Institute of Statistics (INE) Thursday released its preliminary conclusions on the country's latest census, whereby the entire population would amount to 6,109,644 people (3,078,994 are men and 3,030,650 are women), thus falling noticeably short of the 2015 projections that foresaw 7,453,695 inhabitants by 2022, it was reported in Asunción. A total of 2,109,864 dwellings were counted nationwide.

• Thursday, June 29th 2023 - 10:13 UTC

  Brazil's population over 203 million, 2022 census shows

  

  Brazil's population in 2022 was determined to be 203,062,512 people, the Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) announced Wednesday after the results of last year's census were published. The new figures showed an increase of 12.3 million since the 2010 census, Agencia Brasil noted.

• Monday, May 1st 2023 - 09:57 UTC

  Uruguay's INE launches virtual phase of 2023 census

  

  Uruguay's National Statistics Institute (INE) kicked off a new census during the weekend in a virtual modality until May 17 when it will switch to face-to-face interviews, INE Director Diego Aboal explained.

• Saturday, May 4th 2013 - 09:32 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ census shows there are more new homes than new people

  

  The release of further data from the 2012 Census shows that the Falkland Islands continues to work its magic on immigrants who may have arrived with short term plans but have settled for ten or more years and that the ratio of women to men in the Islands has increased considerably over the last four decades.

• Thursday, November 17th 2011 - 19:07 UTC

  Non-white, the majority population in the ‘racial democracy’ of Brazil

  

  For the first time, non-white people make up the majority of Brazil's population, according to preliminary results of the 2010 census. Out of around 191m Brazilians, 91 million identified themselves as white, 82m as mixed race and 15m as black.

• Friday, June 3rd 2011 - 17:46 UTC

  Hispanic population ‘tsunami’ in the US: in ten years it doubled in nine states

  

  A new report from the United States Census Bureau shows that the biggest jumps in the Hispanic population over the past decade were seen in the Deep South and Midwest in places such as South Carolina, Alabama and South Dakota.

• Saturday, April 30th 2011 - 10:07 UTC

  Brazilian has 190.7 million population, and 14.6 million illiterates

  

  Brazil’s population reached 190.7 million according to primary data collected from the 2010 demographic census and released Friday by the Brazilian Geography and Statistics Institute, IBGE. The census also showed that almost 10% of the population is illiterate.

• Monday, February 28th 2011 - 20:34 UTC

  In spite of racial diversity, European genetic ancestry predominates in Brazil

  

  Contrary to expectations even when black and brown make up 52% of the 190 million Brazilians, --according to the latest census--, their genetic ancestry is more predominantly European than African or Indio-American.