National Administrative Department of Statistics

Department of Colombia responsible for the census and related statistics

04°38′49.28″N 74°05′44.03″W / 4.6470222°N 74.0955639°W / 4.6470222; -74.0955639Annual budgetCOP$371,929,146,839 (2014)^[1]Agency executive

Beatriz Piedad Urdinola Contreras, Director

Child agencies

FONDANE
IGAC

Key document

Decreto 2666 de 1953

Websitewww.dane.gov.co

The National Administrative Department of Statistics (Spanish: Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística), commonly referred to as DANE, is the Colombian Administrative Department responsible for the planning, compilation, analysis and dissemination of the official statistics of Colombia.^[2] DANE is responsible for conducting the National Population and Housing census every ten years, among several other studies.

DANE offers more than 100 statistical operations on industrial, economic, agricultural, population and quality of life aspects aimed at supporting decision-making in the country.

Since 2022, the director is Beatriz Piedad Urdinola Contreras.

Previous censuses

2018 Colombian census

References

^ Colombia, Congress of (11 December 2013). "Ley 1687 de 2014" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (49, 001). Bogotá: 5. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
^ Urdinola, Piedad (6 October 2023). "Capacidades estadísticas territoriales para una Colombia mejor". La Patria (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 October 2023.