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This article presents the development of the population censuses organisation and subject-matter in the historical treatment with the background of other European countries and the United States. The Polish Population Census 1789 as well as the censuses conducted in the Grand Duchy of Warsaw within the years 1808–1810 and in the Polish Kingdom in 1897 are described too. Moreover population censuses in Galicia in the second half of the XIX century (conducted every ten years) as well as population censuses in the Prussia annexed territory (organised every five years) are discussed. Last part of the paper presents population censuses conducted in the II Republic of Poland.