National Bureau of Statistics (Tanzania)

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

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]