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Cultural resistance to being tracked (for, um, obvious reasons.) Germany hasn't run a census since 1987.

• pvg 4y ago
  Germany has address registration so I don't think that's the reason.
• Tomte 4y ago
  We had one in 2011. next one is this year.
  • derefr 4y ago
    That was an EU census, not a German census. Top-down multilateral peer pressure. Germany hasn't decided on its own to do a census since 1987.