Peru Census
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A Peru Census is an enumeration of the Peruvian population made by the peru government. The full name of a census in Spanish is like X Censo de Población y V de Vivienda in which X en V are Roman numerals for the tenth population census and fifth household census respectively. The first five times the census was made, only population data was included. From the the sixth census onwards, also household data is included.[1]
Tha latest censuses were made in 1993 and 2005.
[edit] Chronology
The following table shows the dates the censuses were made and the total population number for peru at those dates.
| № | Date | Population | Change since previous census |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1836 | 1,873,736 | n.a. |
| 2 | 1850 | 2,001,203 | 127,467 |
| 3 | 1862 | 2,487,916 | 486,713 |
| 4 | 1876 | 2'699,105 | 211,189 |
| 5 | 1940 | 7,023,111 | 4,324,006 |
| 6 | 1961 | 10,420,357 | 3,397,246 |
| 7 | 1973 | 14,121,564 | 3,701,207 |
| 8 | 1981 | 17,762,231 | 3,640,667 |
| 9 | 1993 | 22,639,443 | 4,877,212 |
| 10 | 2005 | 26,152,265 | 3,512,822 |
