The National Statistics Institute of Chile (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Chile, INE) is a state-run organization of the Government of Chile, created in the second half of the 19th century and tasked with performing a general census of population and housing, then collecting, producing and publishing official demographic statistics of people in Chile, in addition to other specific tasks entrusted to it by law.

Its antecedents lie in the initiatives of president Manuel Bulnes and his minister, Manuel Rengifo, to draw up the second population census and obtain statistical data of the country.

18 March 27, 1843, the Office of Statistics was created, Ministry of the Interior to provide knowledge of the departments and provinces.

By 1853, it was legally required that each section chief of the ministries collect and submit data to the Bureau of Statistics.

[1] The first official publication, National Repertoire (Repertorio Nacional), was released in 1850.