Country has a population register by country

A population register is defined as a centralized state agency that keeps detailed and permanently updated records of every person in the territory.

Countries reporting
67
Highest
1
Netherlands
Lowest
0
Nepal
Median
1
Years covered
266
1750–2015
Data points
16,024

What the numbers show

Country has a population register is currently reported for 67 countries. The highest value is 1 in Netherlands; the lowest is 0 in Nepal.

The median across all reporting countries is 1, and the mean is 0.5075.

Country has a population register: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Netherlands 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Finland 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Guatemala 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Honduras 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Haiti 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Hungary 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 India 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Italy 1 2015 volatile
1 Japan 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 South Korea 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Mexico 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Argentina 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Norway 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Peru 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Poland 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Romania 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Russia 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 El Salvador 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Sweden 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Turkey 1 2015 volatile
1 Uruguay 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Venezuela 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Costa Rica 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Switzerland 1 2015 volatile
1 Chile 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Bolivia 1 2015 volatile
1 Colombia 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Bulgaria 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Belgium 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Germany 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Austria 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Denmark 1 2015 unchanged volatile
1 Ecuador 1 2015 volatile
1 Spain 1 2015 unchanged volatile
35 Yemen 0 2015 flat
35 Canada 0 2015 flat
35 Portugal 0 2015 flat
35 Vietnam 0 2015 flat
35 Paraguay 0 2015 flat
35 Brazil 0 2015 flat
35 Afghanistan 0 2015 flat
35 Saudi Arabia 0 2015 flat
35 Uzbekistan 0 2015 flat
35 Serbia 0 2015 flat
35 Thailand 0 2015 flat
35 China 0 2015 flat
35 Tunisia 0 2015 flat
35 United States 0 2015 flat
35 Australia 0 2015 flat
35 Liberia 0 2015 flat
35 France 0 2015 flat
35 United Kingdom 0 2015 flat
35 Greece 0 2015 flat
35 Egypt 0 2015 flat
35 Dominican Republic 0 2015 flat
35 Indonesia 0 2015 flat
35 Iran 0 2015 flat
35 Cuba 0 2015 flat
35 New Zealand 0 2015 flat
35 Libya 0 2015 flat
35 Morocco 0 2015 flat
35 Madagascar 0 2015 flat
35 Myanmar 0 2015 flat
35 Montenegro 0 2015 flat
35 Nicaragua 0 2015 flat
35 Ethiopia 0 2015 flat
35 Nepal 0 2015 flat

About this data

Indicator
Country has a population register
Source
Thomas Brambor et al. (2019) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
67 places, 16,024 data points, 1750–2015
Last refreshed

A population register is defined as a centralized state agency that keeps detailed and permanently updated records of every person in the territory.