The Latest Breaking News from Census 2022

South Africa's 2022 census: has Johannesburg stopped growing, or are the numbers wrong?

South Africa’s census is a vital source of information for policy making, planning and research, and so the Census 2022 findings released last week were eagerly awaited. It offers many insights on everything from marriage rates to language distribution. But as urban scholars and planning practitioners with decades of interest…

The Conversation · Oct 17, 2023

South Africa's 2022 census missed 31% of people - big data could help in future

No census is ever exact: as academics Tom Moultrie and Rob Dorrington at the University of Cape Town have noted previously:

The Conversation · Oct 13, 2023

Census 2022: Population of Dublin increases by over 100,000

It is the first time since before The Famine that the country's population has risen to over 5 million

Dublin Live · Jun 23, 2022

Census 2022: Everything you need to know, including collection dates and new questions

Census 2022 had been delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic

Dublin Live · Mar 3, 2022

South Africa undertakes its most important census since the end of apartheid

Statistics South Africa has embarked on its once-a-decade process to count all people in the country - including non-citizens. Census 2022 is arguably the most important in the country since the first post-apartheid census in 1996

The Conversation · Feb 4, 2022