The 2009 Census of

Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of no ...

was conducted on 16 November 2009. The census revealed growth by an average of 2.3 percent a year since the previous census in 1999. The 2009 census was "the first time the

Vanuatu National Statistics Office The Vanuatu National Statistics Office (VNSO) is Vanuatu's official statistical agency. The agency compiles and publishes statistics about the Pacific island nation. See also *2009 Vanuatu Census * 2016 Vanuatu Mini-Census (in response to Cyclone P ...

(VNSO) extensively used geographic information system (GIS) technology for a household survey with the exact location of every household in Vanuatu captured through Global Positioning System (GPS) handsets" and "the first time the VNSO used scanning technology to capture the information from the questionnaires into the computer database."

References

Government of Vanuatu 2009 in Vanuatu

Demographics of Vanuatu {{Vanuatu-stub