The 2009 Vanuatu Census refers to the census conducted in Vanuatu

Vanuatu

Vanuatu , officially the Republic of Vanuatu , is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea.Vanuatu was...

 on 16 November, 2009. The census revealed growth by an average of 2.3 percent since the last population survey in 1999.

The 2009 census was "the first time the Vanuatu National Statistics Office

Vanuatu National Statistics Office

The Vanuatu National Statistics Office is Vanuatu's official statistical agency. Vanuatu is a nation consisting of multiple islands in the Pacific Ocean located northeast of Australia. The agency compiles and publishes statistics about the Pacific island nation. It published the Census of...

 (VNSO) extensively used geographic information system (GIS) technology for a household survey with the exact location of every household in Vanuatu captured through Global Positioning System

Global Positioning System

The Global Positioning System is a space-based global navigation satellite system that provides location and time information in all weather, anywhere on or near the Earth, where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites...

(GPS) handsets" and "the first time the VNSO used scanning technology to capture the information from the questionnaires into the computer database."