Uzbekistan has launched its first national census since independence.
Preliminary results are scheduled for July 1, 2026, and the final results will be made public on July 1, 2027.
The process will take place in several stages. From January 15 to January 31, citizens can fill out an electronic questionnaire through a special portal census.stat.uz.
From February 4 to February 28, census workers will start the traditional door-to-door rounds to register those who did not have time to use the online service.
Data collection will cover all regions and settlements of the country.
Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Oleh Nemchinov announced intention to create a working group that will develop a draft document for Ukraine’s transition from a traditional population census to a census based on registers in 2030.
“Today, along with the State Statistics Service of Ukraine and the United Nations Population Fund, we signed a joint statement on the creation of a working group that will work on the development of a comprehensive draft document for Ukraine’s transition from a traditional population census to a census based on registers in the 2030 round of population and housing censuses,” Nemchinov wrote on the Telegram channel.
According to him, the creation of a working group with the involvement of international experts is an important stage in preparation for a high-quality census in registers, recognition of its results by Ukraine’s international partners, digital transformation and a modern culture of data use. The minister believes that the transition to the population census using registers contains numerous advantages and opportunities, in particular, a decrease in financial costs, a reduction in the timing of the census, a decrease in the time for obtaining the results of the population census, a decrease in the burden on respondents, the ability to conduct a census more often than once every ten years.
