Brazil’s Indigenous population double the size previously recorded – census
Brasilia, BrazilReuters Brazil has 1.69 million Indigenous people, almost twice as many as previously acknowledged by the state, according to numbers announced on Monday by the national statistics agency IBGE from the 2022 census. In 2010, the IBGE had counted 896,917 Indigenous people. Vanderlecia Ortega dos Santos, or Vanda, from the Witoto Indigenous people, attends […]
Nearly a sixth of Ecuador’s prisoners held without sentence – census
Quito, EcuadorReuters Nearly a sixth of the inmates in Ecuador’s prisons have not been sentenced, a national census showed on Monday, as President Guillermo Lasso urged the judicial system to be speedier to help ease the burden on overcrowded jails. People gather outside the Penitenciaria del Litoral prison after a riot, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on […]
Nigeria again postpones first census in 17 years
Abuja, Nigera Reuters Nigeria has postponed a census due to take place next week and a new date will be set by the incoming government, the information ministry said on Saturday as it announced the latest delay to the country’s first census in 17 years. The census had been scheduled for 3rd to 7th May, […]
An accurate count?: India, soon world’s most populous nation, doesn’t know how many people it has
YP RAJESH and RUPAM JAIN, of Reuters, report…
Christians a minority in England; non-religious grow – census
London, UKAP Fewer than half the people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian, according to the most recent census – the first time a minority of the population has followed the country’s official religion. Britain has become less religious – and less white – in the decade since the last census, figures from the 2021 census […]
Essay: Northern Ireland census shows more Catholics than Protestants – a political scientist on what this really means
LAURENCE COOLEY, of University of Birmingham, explores – in an article first published on The Conversation, what the latest statistics on religious affiliation in Northern Ireland mean…
More Australians nominate ‘no religion’ in latest census, a declining number identify as Christians
Sydney, Australia The results of the 2021 census were released in late June. One of the most discussed findings was a rise in the number of Australians who declared themselves as belonging to the category “no religion”, along with a fall in those responding as “Christian”. According to the census results, Christian identification declined from 52 per […]
What is your sex? UK court rules against government in census row
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Britain’s High Court on Tuesday ordered the government to change its guidance to people filling out the 2021 census to compel transgender people to give their legally recognised sex, following a challenge from women’s rights activists. The court ordered the government’s Office for National Statistics to rewrite its guidelines on how […]
In the US, Black church leaders push for census participation despite coronavirus
RNS Community of Hope African Methodist Episcopal Church in Maryland is switching gears as it promotes the need for African Americans to fill out the 2020 census form in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The Prince George’s County congregation had planned to hold block parties with other churches in the Washington metropolitan area to […]
Fear remains a barrier for minority participation in US census, say faith leaders
Washington DC, USRNS As the once-a-decade count of Americans nears, US Census Bureau officials brought faith leaders together to talk about their role in getting congregants across the country to participate. “You are your community’s most trusted voice,” Steven Dillingham, director of the US Census Bureau, told about 100 leaders gathered on Tuesday for the […]