The Argentina census ( es, Censo Nacional de Población, Hogares y Viviendas en la Argentina, links=no) is a

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...

that takes place every 10 years since 1960. The first census was taken in 1869, under president

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (; born Domingo Faustino Fidel Valentín Sarmiento y Albarracín; 15 February 1811 – 11 September 1888) was an Argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman and the second President of Argentina. His writing s ...

; there have been 11 federal censuses since that time. The most recent national census took place in 2022. Since 1968, the

National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses ( es, link=no, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos; INDEC) is an Argentine decentralized public body that operates within the Ministry of Economy, which exercises the direction of all of ...

is the public body responsible for conducting the census.

History

Adapted from the official website.

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Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

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