National Bureau of Statistics (Tanzania)

The National Bureau of Statistics is a branch of the Government of Tanzania which has the mandate to provide official statistics to the Government of Tanzania, business community and the public at large. It is based in Dodoma and obtains a wide range of economic, social and demographic statistics about the country. The bureau compiled data on every village in Tanzania for the censuses of 2002, 2012 and 2022, but also provides the results of the previous censuses of 1967, 1978 and 1988.^[1]

National Bureau of Statistics

Ofisi ya Taifa ya Takwimu (Swahili)
Government agency overview
Formed	26 March 1999
Preceding Government agency	Bureau of Statistics
Jurisdiction	Tanzania mainland1
Headquarters	P.O. Box 2683, Dodoma
Motto	Statistics for development
Minister responsible	Ministry of Finance and Planning
Government agency executive	Dr. Albina A. Chuwa, Statistician General
Key document	Statistics Act No 9, 2015
Website	www.nbs.go.tz
Footnotes
1 Applies to Zanzibar in the case of census and some of surveys