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Originally Posted by Miu
Germany stopped carrying out censuses because of massive public opposition in the 80s and 90s amid paranoia about government infringement on people's privacy (previous censuses were called off because of boycotts and terror threats), not because population registers were thought to be good enough.
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It's actually both. Germany stopped carrying out censuses due to opposition to the 1987 West German census, and also because they had population registers which they thought could replace the census. The 2011 census showed it was pretty optimistic. The German population was overestimated by 1.5 million people in the population registers.