Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (Portuguese: Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística; IBGE) is the agency responsible for official collection of statistical, geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environmental information in Brazil. IBGE performs a decennial national census; questionnaires account for information such as age, household income, literacy, education, occupation and hygiene levels.
| Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística | |
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 29 May 1936 |
| Headquarters | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Employees | 11,850 |
| Annual budget | R$ R$ 2.45 billion (2022) |
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| Parent agency | Ministry of the Economy |
| Website | ibge.gov.br |
| Footnotes | |
| The Demographic Census 2022 budget is R$ 2.29 billion | |
IBGE is a public institute created in 1936 under the name National Institute of Statistics. Its founder and chief proponent was statistician Mário Augusto Teixeira de Freitas. The current name dates from 1938. Its headquarters are located in Rio de Janeiro, and its current president is Eduardo Rios Neto. It was made a federal agency by Decree-Law No. 161 on February 13, 1967, and is linked to the Ministry of the Economy, inside the Secretariat of Planning, Budget and Management.