Which country's 2019 census recorded 96,208,984 residents?

Vietnam’s 2019 census recorded 96,208,984 residents.

Vietnam’s General Statistics Office conducted the Population and Housing Census with April 1, 2019, as its reference point. The total comprised 47,881,061 males and 48,327,923 females, making women a slightly larger share of the population. The census was notable for using electronic questionnaires on mobile devices for nearly all households.

The results placed Vietnam among the world’s most populous countries and ranked it third in Southeast Asia, behind Indonesia and the Philippines. Compared with the 2009 census, the population had increased by about 10.4 million people, while the average annual growth rate had edged down.

Readers sometimes confuse the census total with Vietnam’s estimated average population for the whole of 2019, which was about 96.48 million. Those figures are close but not identical: the quiz refers specifically to the official census count taken at midnight on April 1.