Editing Census (section)

===China===
One of the world's earliest preserved censuses<ref name="Hymes">{{cite book |author=[[Robert Hymes]] |url=https://archive.org/details/columbiachronolo00john |title=Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-231-11004-4 |editor=John Stewart Bowman |page=[https://archive.org/details/columbiachronolo00john/page/12 12] |url-access=registration}}</ref> was held in China in AD{{nbsp}}2 during the [[Han dynasty]], and is still considered by scholars to be quite accurate.<ref>{{cite web |author=Jeffrey Hays |title=China – Facts and Details: Han Dynasty (206 B.C. – A.D. 220) |url=http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=39&catid=2&subcatid=2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123032526/http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=39&catid=2&subcatid=2 |archive-date=2010-11-23}}</ref><ref name="Twitchett">Twitchett, D., Loewe, M., and Fairbank, J.K. ''Cambridge History of China: The Ch'in and Han Empires 221 B.C.–A.D. 220''. Cambridge University Press (1986), p. 240.</ref>{{sfnp|Nishijima|1986|pp=595–96}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Yoon |first1=H. |year=1985 |title=An early Chinese idea of a dynamic environmental cycle |journal=[[GeoJournal]] |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=211–12 |bibcode=1985GeoJo..10..211Y |doi=10.1007/bf00150742 |s2cid=189888642}}</ref> The population was registered as having 57,671,400 individuals in 12,366,470 households but on this occasion only taxable families had been taken into account, indicating the income and the number of soldiers who could be mobilized.<ref>{{cite web |title=Han Dynasty Government |url=https://factsanddetails.com/china/cat2/sub2/entry-5426.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714010834/https://factsanddetails.com/china/cat2/sub2/entry-5426.html |archive-date=14 July 2021 |access-date=14 July 2021 |website=Facts and Details}}{{self-published source|date=July 2021}}</ref>{{sfnp|Nishijima|1986|pp=595–96}} Another census was held in AD{{nbsp}}144.