 State Statistics of Serbia has been a member of the International Statistical Institute since its foundation in 1885.The State Statistics Directorate was founded in 1919 in the scope of the Ministry of Social Policy of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, but a separate Statistical Office of Serbia was opened only in 1945.Regarding the publishing activity, the first State Statistics of Serbia was published in 1863 and the first results of Population Census in 1863.