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- Giorgio Mortara (April 4, 1885, in Mantua, Italy – 1967 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was an Italian economist, demographer, and statistician. Son of , minister of justice of the Kingdom of Italy in the Nitti government, although grandson of the rabbi of Mantua, Marco Mortara, he was not religiously educated. His mother was Clelia Vivanti, sister of the internationally renowned mathematician Giulio Vivanti. He held the academic rank of professor at the University of Messina from 1909 up 1914 in Rome (1915–24) and Milan (1924–38) and director of the Giornale degli economisti (1910–38). He lived for a period (1907–1908) in Berlin, where he worked with L. von Bortkiewicz on probability theory and particularly on the law of rare events. He is famous also for the construction of statistical indices for measuring the conjuntural effects (economic barometers). Forced to leave Italy in 1939 for racial reasons, he moved to Brazil, where he was technical advisor of the National Census (1939–48) and then of the National Council of Statistics where he directed the laboratory (1949–57) and where he created a flourishing school of demography. In 1954 he was nominated president of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, of which he became (1957) Honorary President. In 1956 he returned to teach at the University of Rome of which he was appointed professor emeritus in 1961. Among the many works, very well known for his Prospettive economiche (15 vols., 1921–37), valued source of information about the history of those years, and university courses. For a deep biography, see A. Baffigi and M. Magnani, Banca d’Italia, 2008. (en)
- Giorgio Mortara (Mantova, 4 aprile 1885 – Rio de Janeiro, 30 marzo 1967) è stato un economista e statistico italiano. (it)
- Giorgio Mortara (Mântua, 4 de abril de 1885 — Rio de Janeiro, 30 de março de 1967) foi um economista, estatístico e demógrafo italiano. (pt)
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- Giorgio Mortara (Mantova, 4 aprile 1885 – Rio de Janeiro, 30 marzo 1967) è stato un economista e statistico italiano. (it)
- Giorgio Mortara (Mântua, 4 de abril de 1885 — Rio de Janeiro, 30 de março de 1967) foi um economista, estatístico e demógrafo italiano. (pt)
- Giorgio Mortara (April 4, 1885, in Mantua, Italy – 1967 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was an Italian economist, demographer, and statistician. Son of , minister of justice of the Kingdom of Italy in the Nitti government, although grandson of the rabbi of Mantua, Marco Mortara, he was not religiously educated. His mother was Clelia Vivanti, sister of the internationally renowned mathematician Giulio Vivanti. (en)
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