Question

The first ever CENSUS in modern human history was conducted by which country and when (was it conducted) ?

Answer 1

First census was conducted in 1872 but a complete census was conducted in 1881

Answer 2

 the early rig veda reveals that some kind of population count was maintained in during 800-600 BC in india.the celebrated arthasashtra by coutilyawrittened in the3rd century BC prescribed the collection of population statastics as a measure of state policy for taxation.it contained a detail dicriptions of methodfs of population. The Census of India 2001 was the fourteenth census in the continuous series as reckoned from1872 and the sixth since independence.