Editing Demographics of Myanmar (section)

===1983 census===
At the time of the 1983 census in Burma, as of 31 March 1983, the population was 35,442,972. {{As of|2012|alt=As of July 2012}}, this was estimated by the ''[[The World Factbook|CIA World Factbook]]'' to have increased to '''60,584,650'''. Other estimates put place the total population at around 60&nbsp;million. China's ''People's Daily'' reported that Burma had a census in 2007, and at the end of 2009 has 59.2 million people, and growing at 2% annually.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/7049436.html|title=Myanmar population hits over 59 mln in 2009|date=1 July 2010|work=People's Daily|publisher=Xinhua|access-date=17 July 2011|archive-date=29 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429050508/http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/7049436.html|url-status=live}}</ref> with exception for [[Cyclone Nargis]] in 2008. Most of these estimates have indeed overlooked the demographic changes that were at work since the 1970s in the country.<ref name="spo">{{cite journal |last1=Spoorenberg |first1=Thomas |year=2013 |title=Demographic changes in Myanmar since 1983: An examination of official data |journal=Population and Development Review |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=309–324 |doi=10.1111/j.1728-4457.2013.00593.x }}</ref><ref name="spoo">{{cite journal |last1=Spoorenberg |first1=Thomas |year=2015 |title=Provisional results of the 2014 census of Myanmar: The surprise that wasn't |journal=Asian Population Studies |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=4–6 |doi=10.1080/17441730.2014.972084 |s2cid=154114929 }}</ref><ref name="spoor">{{cite journal |last1=Spoorenberg |first1=Thomas |year=2015 |title=Myanmar's first census in more than 30 years: A radical revision of the official population count |journal=Population & Societies |volume=527 |issue=November |pages=1–4 |url=http://www.ined.fr/fichier/s_rubrique/24592/population.societies.2015.527.census.birma.en.en.pdf |access-date=9 December 2015 |archive-date=8 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808043519/https://www.ined.fr/fichier/s_rubrique/24592/population.societies.2015.527.census.birma.en.en.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Britain-based human rights agencies place the population as high as 70&nbsp;million. Estimates for the country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to [[AIDS]]. This can result in lower [[life expectancy]], higher [[infant mortality]] and [[death rate]]s, lower population and [[Population growth rate|growth rates]], and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected.

No trustworthy census has occurred since the 1930s. In the 1940s, the detailed census results were destroyed during the Japanese invasion of 1942. Census results after that time have been flawed by civil wars and a series of military governments. The census in 1983 occurred at a time when parts of the country were controlled by insurgent groups and inaccessible to the government.