The Central Office of Statistics (COS) was set up in 1947. In the subsequent decades, the Office experienced institutional changes, such as the incorporation of the Electoral Office in 1956 and the Government Printing Press in 1973.

By the early 1980s, the Office had assumed the structure of a national statistical agency, with the production and dissemination of statistics as its sole remit. From the mid-1990s onwards, the Office played an important role in Malta’s process towards accession to the European Union.

The turn of the century brought into being the Malta Statistics Authority, with the COS evolving into the National Statistics Office on 1 March 2001.

A new publication has now been released entitled, Malta’s Statistical Institute: A Concise History 1947-2011

This publication is available online and can be downloaded at: http://www.nso.gov.mt/statdoc/document_view.aspx?id=2904

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