Statistics_Iceland Knowpia

Statistics Iceland
Hagstofa Íslands
	Logo of Statistics Iceland
Agency overview
Formed	1914
Jurisdiction	Iceland
Headquarters	Reykjavík, Iceland
Employees	158 (2009)
Minister responsible	Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister;
Agency executive	Ólafur Hjálmarsson, Director-general;
Website	statice.is (in English); hagstofa.is (in Icelandic)

Statistics Iceland (Icelandic: Hagstofa Íslands) is the main official institute providing statistics on the nation of Iceland. It was created by the Althing in 1913, began operations in 1914 and became an independent government agency under the Prime Minister's Office on 1 January 2008.^[1]