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The United Nations Population Fund is the lead agency in the UN system supporting national efforts to conduct censuses, particularly in developing countries. A census is among the most important and complex peace-time exercises a nation can undertake. Read more on data for development: http://bit.ly/GBDqWX

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Making Sense of Myanmar's Census

31 March 2014

A mother and child on the outskirts of Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar. Photo credit: UN Photo

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Myanmar Tests Procedures for Its 2014 Census

22 April 2013

Data processing center at the Department of Population in the Ministry of Inmigration and Population in Nay Pyi Daw, Myanmar's new capital city. Photo © UNFPA Myanmar/Pyay Kyaw Myint

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Counting the World: UNFPA Highlights the Challenges of Census-Taking

14 September 2012

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Senegal and Brazil Forge South-South Cooperation on Census Activities

07 August 2012

From left to right: Moustapha Ndour, First Counselor of the Embassy of Senegal in Brazil; Ambassador Fernando Abreu, future Director of the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC); Roberto Neves Sant’Anna, IBGE Foreign Affairs Advisor; Abdoul Aziz Ndiaye, Ambassador of Senegal in Brazil; Marco Farani, Director of the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC); and Harold Robinson, UNFPA Representative in Brazil and Country Director for Argentina and Paraguay. Photo: Ulisses Lacava/UNFPA

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UN, Myanmar Agree on Support for First Census Since 1983

30 April 2012

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Counting the World: New Documentary Explores the Census

09 April 2012

Mapping an entire country is one of the key steps in undertaking a national census.

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Talking Census Under the Baobob Tree

16 March 2012

A group of local men, UNFPA representatives and statisticians discuss the country's upcoming census under the shade of the baobab tree.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina Prepares for its First Census in over 20 Years

16 January 2012

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U.S. Population Slows Considerably

26 December 2011

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