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 ...

es in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

18th-19th centuries

* Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (census of 1789, see :pl:Lustracja dymów i podanie ludności) Poland was partitioned between German

Prussia Prussia (; ; Old Prussian: ''Prūsija'') was a Germans, German state centred on the North European Plain that originated from the 1525 secularization of the Prussia (region), Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. For centuries, ...

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...

, and

Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe#Before World War I, Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. A military ...

since 1795. * Russian Empire Census (

Privislinsky Krai Vistula Land, also known as Vistula Country (; ), was the name applied to the lands of Congress Poland from 1867, following the defeats of the November Uprising (1830–1831) and January Uprising (1863–1864) as it was increasingly stripped of ...

census of 1897) *

German census of 1895 German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ger ...

(

Province of Posen The Province of Posen (; ) was a Provinces of Prussia, province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1848 to 1920, occupying most of the historical Greater Poland. The province was established following the Greater Poland Uprising (1848), Poznań Uprisi ...

Province of Silesia The Province of Silesia (; ; ) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1919. The Silesia region was part of the Prussian realm since 1742 and established as an official province in 1815, then became part of the German Empire in 1871. In 1919, as ...

, Province of Pomerania,

West Prussia The Province of West Prussia (; ; ) was a province of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and from 1878 to 1919. West Prussia was established as a province of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1773, formed from Royal Prussia of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonweal ...

Province of Brandenburg The Province of Brandenburg () was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1947. Brandenburg was established in 1815 from the Kingdom of Prussia's core territory, comprised the bulk of the historic Margraviate of Brandenburg (excluding Altmark) and ...

) * Austro-Hungarian census (

Grand Duchy of Cracow Grand may refer to: People with the name * Grand (surname) * Grand L. Bush (born 1955), American actor Places * Grand, Oklahoma, USA * Grand, Vosges, village and commune in France with Gallo-Roman amphitheatre * Grand County (disambiguation) ...

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)

20th century

Polish census of 1921 The Polish census of 1921 or First General Census in Poland () was the first census in the Second Polish Republic, performed on September 30, 1921, by the Main Bureau of Statistics ( Główny Urząd Statystyczny). It was followed by the Polish ce ...

Polish census of 1931 The Polish census of 1931 or Second General Census in Poland () was the second census taken in sovereign Poland during the interwar period, performed on December 9, 1931, by the Main Bureau of Statistics. It established that Poland's population ...

* Polish census of 1950 * Polish census of 1960 * Polish census of 1970 * Polish census of 1978 * Polish census of 1988 In addition to these censuses, there were also: * the * microcensus (representative surveys) of 1974, 1984 and 1995 * surveys of agricultural population

21st century

Polish census of 2002 Polish census of 2002 () was a census in Poland taken from 21 May to 8 June 2002. Censuses in Poland are conducted every 10 years. This census was scheduled to take place between 1998 and 2001 but was postponed because of the continuing transform ...

* Polish census of 2011 *

Polish census of 2021 The results of the Polish census of 2021 (officially, the National Population and Housing Census 2021, ) were published in 2023. Data was gathered from April 1 to September 30 (the previously planned duration from April 1 to June 31 was extended be ...

References

* Joanna Strzelecka
Powszechne spisy ludności
Kancelaria Sejmu, Biuro Studiów i Ekspertyz, Informacja Nr 890, 4/2002 * Demographics of Poland {{Poland-stub

18th-19th centuries

20th century

21st century

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