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 sixth census onwards, also household data is included.^[1]

Tha latest censuses were made in 1993 and 2005. The next will be the 2007 Census made in august 2007.

It is prescribed by law (Law Nº 13248) that every ten years a population and household census has to be executed^[2] .

[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