The RSSB was founded on March 10, 1937[1] in Brussels as Société Belge de Statistique (association sans but lucratif).
Its nineteen founding members were leading Belgian personalities from government, academia, industrial sectors, the army, and the church.
[3] In the mid-1970s and 1980s the activities of members of the Society followed a general tendency to internationality in academia and were more visible in the United States and other countries than in Belgium itself.
[4] From that date onwards all official documents of the Society are published in both Dutch and French, and its working language is English.
Its official names in the national languages French and Dutch are now "Société Royale Belge de Statistique (SRBS)" and "Koninklijke Belgische Vereniging voor Statistiek (KBVS)", respectively.