# The 2005 Peru Census was a detailed enumeration of the

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vian population. It was conducted by the

Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática The Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI) ("National Institute of Statistics and Informatics") is a semi-autonomous Peruvian government agency which coordinates, compiles, and evaluates statistical information for the country ...

from July 18 through August 20, 2005. Its full name in

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is ''X Censo de Población y V de Vivienda'' ("Tenth Population and Fifth Household Census"). The previous census performed in Peru was the 1993 Census. The following census was the 2007 Census. The results of the census were released to the public on November 30, 2005 after all the census materials from the country's 25

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were transported to

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and processed at the INEI information processing center in that city.

Results

The total population of Peru is 26,152,265 inhabitants. The following table shows a breakdown of the total population per region and the Lima Province.

References

INEI: Perú tiene 26 millones 152 mil 265 habitantes
Censuses in Peru Demographics of Peru 2005 in Peru

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