Population & Demographics
Census 2027 | Journey of India’s 1.5 billion headcount
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The Government of India has announced the resumption of the decennial population enumeration exercise, originally scheduled for 2021 but delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The upcoming census will be India's first digital census, conducted in two phases: House-listing (2026) and Population Enumeration (2027), and will notably include a caste census, a significant departure from practice since 1931.
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