Pakistan's population totals roughly 190 million, of whom an estimated two-thirds are under 30.
Democrats and Republicans will fight fiercely over whether to adjust population totals using a contentious method called statistical sampling.
Brown bears have an extremely large geographic distribution, and their worldwide population totals more than 200,000 individuals.
The local population totals more than 73 million, almost the same size as Europe's largest economy, Germany.
The information gleaned from these households would be used to adjust population totals and, Census Bureau officials say, make the census more accurate.
They have acknowledged in interviews with me that the population totals for 2000 and 1990 were reached by different methods and are not directly comparable.
Russia has been downsizing for at least a decade, since the unsustainable Soviet empire fell and took standards of living, population totals and industrial production levels with it.
Previous census estimates, released in January, predicted that Hispanics had edged past blacks in terms of population, but only if the black population totals excluded blacks who checked more than one race or who checked black and Hispanic origin.
However, Mr. Sharon says he is also working to consolidate Israel's hold over the much larger settlements in the West Bank, where the Jewish population totals some 230,000.
Census officials plan to collect data from a sample of 314,000 randomly selected households, and use that data to adjust population totals for geographic areas as small as a city block.
Because a large percentage of those missed, mainly racial and ethnic minorities, tend to live in Democratic areas, adjusting their population totals upward will give Democrats an advantage when states draw new boundaries for Congressional and state legislative districts for the new decade.
