The latest census puts India’s wild lion population at 891 lions, a 32% increase from 2020. But is it all good news?

Hemp-derived THC and criminal justice reforms are likely to be on the agenda for the special session. Redistricting should be ...

Foreign aid cuts will make the ongoing ‘quiet crisis’ even worse, according to experts. Researchers warn that millions of people worldwide are missing from census and survey data, leaving policymakers ...

New research published in Science reveals what experts are calling a "quiet crisis" in population data collection.

For the first time, empty spaces were left on the 2020 census form so that respondents could write in their “origins,” such as “German” or “Jamaican,” when answering the race question.

People who were classified as being two or more races rose from 2.9% to 10.2% of the U.S. population from 2010 to 2020, and the increase was most noticeable among Hispanic people. The share of the ...

For the first time, empty spaces were left on the 2020 census form so that respondents could write in their “origins,” such as “German” or “Jamaican,” when answering the race question.

Despite a “hot mess” of a rollout and months of delays, new 2020 Census data reveals how America is changing. More respondents reported multiracial identities and for the first time on record ...

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO -- In Barrio Obrero Marina, a working class neighborhood of San Juan, the U.S. Census Bureau said that fewer than one in 10 households had answered the 2020 census by mid-August.

Nearly two-out-of-three households who live in Lincoln Square have completed the 2020 Census at this point, which seems impressive — until compared with 2010, when 76 percent had gotten it done.

After Oct. 7, the Census Bureau will stop accepting paper 2020 census forms postmarked by Sept. 30, NPR has learned. Some worry mail delays could harm the accuracy of census data about rural areas.

These populations have a low self-response rate, meaning that less people self-report the members of the household through the paper census form. Under normal circumstances, this would oblige the ...