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India Begins Counting Over 1 Billion People in Digital Census

India has officially commenced the first phase of Census 2027, a monumental task that stands as the world’s largest population exercise. Starting April 1, 2026, the government launched the House Listing and Housing Census, marking a historic shift as the first-ever digital census in the country’s history.Utilizing a mobile application for enumerators and a self-enumeration portal for citizens, the exercise aims to gather comprehensive data on ho…

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It is now considered a given fact in the international community that India is the world's most populous nation. According to 2024 data from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), India's population reaches approximately 1.441 billion. However, this is an estimate. The actual population of India has not been surveyed since 2011. The Indian government is conducting an official full population census for the first time in 15 years. It is a la…

India has undertaken this week the Home America task of counting the population of the most populous country in the world. Succession of figures echoes: three million officials will comb for one year its 28 states, 7,000 cities and 640,000 villages to complete a census that will cost $1.24 billion. Its results will serve to recalibrate economic strategy, social policies and parliamentary representation.

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India launched on Wednesday 1 April a large-scale census, involving three million agents for a year. An operation is expected to confirm that the country is outnumbering China as the most populous nation in the world, with nearly 1.5 billion inhabitants. The results will be known in March 2027.

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Bloomberg broke the news in United States on Wednesday, April 1, 2026.
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