Argentina holds 11th national population and housing census [View all]

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Argentina held a national population and housing census on Wednesday - only its 11th since 1869.

Around 600,000 census takers - most of them schoolteachers - worked from 8 a.m. to past 6 p.m., and enumerated around 15 million homes and 47,327,407 people - an 18% increase from the 2010 census.

The 2022 census was the first in the country in which an online form was made available, and according to Statistics Institute (INDEC) head Marco Lavagna, some 23.8 million Argentines had availed themselves of this resource since its rollout on March 16th.

Each questionnaire detailed 24 questions on housing and 37 on population - including, for the first time, non-binary gender identity choices.

While Argentina's constitution does not provide for a national census, these were taken generationally from 1869 to 1947 - and roughly once a decade since then.

Today's count had been delayed by 18 months due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, as well as severe debt and economic crises inherited from the right-wing Mauricio Macri administration.

The country's last census, in 2010, counted 40,117,096 people in 11,317,507 occupied homes and 23,626 group housing facilities.

"The last census was the day we lost (former President) Néstor Kirchner - a day of great sadness that will always remain in my memory," President Alberto Fernández recalled.

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Argentine President Alberto Fernández and First Lady Fabiola Yáñez sit down with census takers on Wednesday. She holds their infant son Francisco, born April 11th.

The country's census this year was the first to feature an online form - and the first to include non-binary gender choices.

A 2020 electoral court ruling enjoined congress to update its representation, which is still distributed according to 1980 census results.