May be apocryphal, but I thought I remembered reading that Rome never implemented a real census. Curious about the relationship between statistical management of logistics and industrial development
Funnily, the blog author has an article all about how demography of ancient Rome was determined - https://acoup.blog/2023/12/22/collections-how-many-people-an... By our standards they did not conduct a true census, where you counted everyone, but varied if counting heads of households, or men of military age, or men, women, and children.