Bureau of Statistics

Head: Mrs. Vanessa Profitt
vprofitt@statisticsguyana.gov.gy
(592)231-4594 / (592)227-0840

This department is responsible for producing Social and Demographic Statistics and its activities include the following:

	Compilation of vital statistics (births, deaths and marriages) using data collected from General Registrar's Office. Annual birth, death and marriage rates are computed.
	Compilation of health statistics using data from the Ministry of Health. These include immunization, chronic illness, reproduction, nutrition and child survival and development.
	Compilation of education statistics using data from the Ministry of Education's Education Digest.
	Compilation of migration statistics using data entered from passengers' Emarkation / Disembarkation (E/D) cards - made available to the Bureau by the immigration department.
	Generation of Population and other demographic data.
	Compilation of labour force statistics and calculation of employment rates using data from household surveys undertaken by BOS periodically.

Please refer to the Demography section in the Statistical Bulletin for publications by this Department. Below are two extracted tables from the Bulletin.
Downloads available here

Estimated end of Year Population

Major Cause of Deaths