| Birth Date: | 4 April 1885 |
| Birth Place: | Mantua, Kingdom of Italy |
| Death Place: | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Occupation: | Economist, demographer, statistician |
| Parents: | Lodovico Mortara and Clelia Vivanti |
| Alma Mater: | University of Naples |
Giorgio Mortara (4 April 1885 – 1967) was an Italian economist, demographer, and statistician. He was the son of senator Lodovico Mortara, a noted jurist, magistrate and politician.[1]
Giorgio held the academic rank of professor at the University of Messina from 1909 to 1914, in Rome from 1915 to 1924, and in Milan from 1924 to 1938. He was also the director of the Giornale degli economisti from 1910 to 1938.
Giorgio lived in Berlin between 1907 and 1908, where he worked with L. von Bortkiewicz on probability theory and particularly on the law of rare events. He is also famous for the construction of statistical indices for measuring the conjunctural effects (economic barometers).
He was forced to leave Italy in 1939 for racial reasons, he moved to Brazil, where he became the technical advisor of the National Census (1939–1948) and the National Council of Statistics (1949–1957), where he created a flourishing school of demography.
In 1954 he was nominated for the role of the president of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, of which he became the Honorary President (1957). In 1956, he returned to teach at the University of Rome, where he was appointed professor emeritus in 1961.[2]
In 1905, he obtained a degree in Law at University of Naples with a dissertation on Demography.