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March 8th, 2024
VI census just 30% complete ahead of June 2024 deadline– Hon Lorna G. Smith

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Deputy Premier and Minister for Financial Services, Trade, and Labour, Hon Lorna G. Smith, OBE (AL) has urged persons in the [British] Virgin Islands to take part in the national census, as the population census is far behind its deadline.

May 13th, 2023
2023 Population & Housing Census to commence June 15, 2023

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Director of the Central Statistics Office Mr. Raymond Phillips has indicated that preparations are well underway to administer the Population and Housing Census to begin from June 15, 2023, in the Virgin Islands (VI).

November 14th, 2022
'What is so hard in counting 50,000 people?’- Caller on national census

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- “Look at we fighting to get a census. We barely got 50,000 people right now. What is so hard in counting 50, 000 people?”

October 31st, 2021
USVI population drops a stunning 18.1%

VI CONSORTIUM

FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- The US Census Bureau on Thursday, October 28, 2021, released the 2020 Census population and housing unit counts for the US Virgin Islands, revealing data Governor Albert A. Bryan Jr warned would "shock" Virgin Islanders.

July 1st, 2014
Guyana's population declines slightly

DEMERARA WAVES

The population of Guyana has recorded a marginal reduction of 3,339 persons as the preliminary results of the Guyana population and housing census 2012, released by the Guyana National Bureau of Statistics revealed that the population count of 751,223 at the previous census, September 15, 2002, was down to a count of 747,884 persons as at Census day, September 15, 2012.

February 20th, 2014
Cabinet to receive census update by March 2014 – SFC report

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – After being completed nearly four years ago, census results are yet to be made available to the public after being promised for the third quarter of 2013.

September 4th, 2013
Population study should work as guide for VI immigration policy – Wheatley

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Commentator Douglas Wheatley is of the view that the question of an optimal population for the Virgin Islands (VI) should be determined and used as a guide for the Territory’s immigration policy.

August 19th, 2013
Human resources blamed for census delay - Report

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Citing an absence of resources among other reasons, the Development Planning Unit in its Annual report of 2012 disclosed that detailed census information will not be available until the third quarter of this year [September, 2013].

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