Census in Antigua and Barbuda

Decennial census figures are based on persons living in Antiguan and Barbudan households, although institutionalized persons and cruise-ship employees have also been instructed to take the census. All persons residing in the country, regardless of immigration status, are tabulated in the census. When a household refuses to take the census, the number of persons residing in the household is defined as that of the parish average. In some censuses, census-takers have also been instructed to guess the amount of persons in the household based on what the census-taker observes. It is legal to refuse to take the census, and residents outside of the country during the census period are not tabulated. Persons in restricted institutions and vagrants (homeless people) are usually not included in informational data tables.^[3][4]

Censuses are usually assigned the reference date of 28 May in a year ending in one. This will be the case for the 2031 census, and has also been the case for all censuses other than the 2025 census, when the date was moved to 25 June following four years of delays. As population and housing characteristics change during the year, questions are asked as of the reference date, rather than the time the census form as actually completed.^[5][6]

While censuses have been taken prior to independence, the last time being in 1970,^[7] the first modern census was conducted in 1991 under the Statistics Division.^[3]

Year	Total population	Change in population	Ethnic demographics counted
1991	62,929	2.88%	African/Negro/Black, Amerindian/Carib, East Indian, Chinese, Portuguese, Syrian/Lebanese, White, Mixed, other
2001	72,829	15.73%	African/Negro/Black, Amerindian/Carib, East Indian, Chinese, Portuguese, Syrian/Lebanese, Caucasian/White, Mixed, other
2011	83,278	14.35%	African/Black/Negro, Amerindian/Carib, Asian, Caucasian/White, Chinese, East Indian/Indian, Mixed (Black/White), Mixed (Other), Portuguese, Hispanic, Syrian/Lebanese, other ethnic group