How the U.S. government measures race has changed substantially since censuses began in 1790. Today, Americans differ on whether the government should ask about race.

Republican Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida has joined a lawsuit challenging what plaintiffs describe as the “unlawful ...

U.S. Representative Byron Donalds (R-FL) has joined a major lawsuit that claims the U.S. Census Bureau’s use of certain ...

India’s census in 2026 will be the most significant since independence. Politics will be reshaped along the lines of caste, ...

Quyen Dinh didn’t even remember that, in 2024, she was selected as one of 23 appointees to the Census 2030 Advisory Committee. The group has been disbanded since March by order of President Donald ...

Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.

President Trump recently announced that he had directed the Department of Commerce to conduct an unprecedented, mid-decade census of the U.S. population. Like his order for the 2020 Census that was ...

Adjusted section for where people are ‘usually resident’ to provide more accurate population distribution data ...