The 1999 Belarusian census was the first

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Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

after it became an independent state after the

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. Previous census data in the territory of Belarus may be found in

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es and the Russian Empire census. Belarus Census website

References

Demographics of Belarus

Census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

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