Mapping India: The world's largest count

绘制印度:世界最大的计数

The Documentary Podcast

2026-09-27

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India is undertaking the biggest population count the world has ever attempted - a digital census designed to capture the lives, identities and realities of more than 1.4 billion people. With three million field staff, self‑enumeration in 16 languages, and real‑time monitoring across cities, forests, floodplains and megacities, the operation is both a national ritual and a vast technological experiment. The census reaches far beyond population totals. It records religion, language, housing, migration, education, work, and for the first time in nearly a century, caste.
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  • It's a count that reaches every corner of the country, from the flood plains

  • and tea gardens here in Assam, to the crowded lanes of Kolkata and the high-rise stars of Mumbai.

  • The scale is staggering.

  • And since the last census was conducted in 2011, India has added about 200 million people to its population.

  • It doesn't just record how many people live here.

  • It captures religion, languages, housing conditions, education, work and migration.

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