diff --git a/src-ui/src/app/components/dashboard/dashboard.component.html b/src-ui/src/app/components/dashboard/dashboard.component.html
index d33dec9d6..f1a3ef1ed 100644
--- a/src-ui/src/app/components/dashboard/dashboard.component.html
+++ b/src-ui/src/app/components/dashboard/dashboard.component.html
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@
   </div>
   <div class="col-lg">
     <h4>Statistics</h4>
-    <p>None yet.</p>
+    <p>Documents in inbox: {{statistics.documents_inbox}}</p>
+    <p>Total documents: {{statistics.documents_total}}</p>
     <h4>Upload new Document</h4>
     <form>
       <ngx-file-drop
diff --git a/src-ui/src/app/components/dashboard/dashboard.component.ts b/src-ui/src/app/components/dashboard/dashboard.component.ts
index 1193d9e77..f8d5fb0ae 100644
--- a/src-ui/src/app/components/dashboard/dashboard.component.ts
+++ b/src-ui/src/app/components/dashboard/dashboard.component.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,16 @@
+import { HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http';
 import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
-import { FileSystemDirectoryEntry, FileSystemFileEntry, NgxFileDropEntry } from 'ngx-file-drop';
-import { SavedViewConfig } from 'src/app/data/saved-view-config';
+import { FileSystemFileEntry, NgxFileDropEntry } from 'ngx-file-drop';
+import { Observable } from 'rxjs';
 import { DocumentService } from 'src/app/services/rest/document.service';
 import { SavedViewConfigService } from 'src/app/services/saved-view-config.service';
 import { Toast, ToastService } from 'src/app/services/toast.service';
+import { environment } from 'src/environments/environment';
+
+export interface Statistics {
+  documents_total?: number
+  documents_inbox?: number
+}
 
 @Component({
   selector: 'app-dashboard',
@@ -13,10 +20,11 @@ import { Toast, ToastService } from 'src/app/services/toast.service';
 export class DashboardComponent implements OnInit {
 
   constructor(private documentService: DocumentService, private toastService: ToastService,
-    public savedViewConfigService: SavedViewConfigService) { }
+    public savedViewConfigService: SavedViewConfigService, private http: HttpClient) { }
 
 
   savedDashboardViews = []
+  statistics: Statistics = {}
 
   ngOnInit(): void {
     this.savedViewConfigService.getDashboardConfigs().forEach(config => {
@@ -24,8 +32,14 @@ export class DashboardComponent implements OnInit {
         this.savedDashboardViews.push({viewConfig: config, documents: result.results})
       })
     })
+    this.getStatistics().subscribe(statistics => {
+      this.statistics = statistics
+    })
   }
 
+  getStatistics(): Observable<Statistics> {
+    return this.http.get(`${environment.apiBaseUrl}statistics/`)
+  }
 
 
   public fileOver(event){
diff --git a/src/documents/views.py b/src/documents/views.py
index 9bec12555..2ef76cb7a 100755
--- a/src/documents/views.py
+++ b/src/documents/views.py
@@ -194,3 +194,14 @@ class SearchAutoCompleteView(APIView):
             return Response(index.autocomplete(self.ix, term, limit))
         else:
             return Response([])
+
+
+class StatisticsView(APIView):
+
+    permission_classes = (IsAuthenticated,)
+
+    def get(self, request, format=None):
+        return Response({
+            'documents_total': Document.objects.all().count(),
+            'documents_inbox': Document.objects.filter(tags__is_inbox_tag=True).distinct().count()
+        })
diff --git a/src/paperless/urls.py b/src/paperless/urls.py
index b78cdc1ff..16169309b 100755
--- a/src/paperless/urls.py
+++ b/src/paperless/urls.py
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ from documents.views import (
     DocumentTypeViewSet,
     SearchView,
     IndexView,
-    SearchAutoCompleteView
+    SearchAutoCompleteView,
+    StatisticsView
 )
 
 api_router = DefaultRouter()
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ urlpatterns = [
     url(r"^api/auth/",include(('rest_framework.urls', 'rest_framework'), namespace="rest_framework")),
     url(r"^api/search/autocomplete/", SearchAutoCompleteView.as_view(), name="autocomplete"),
     url(r"^api/search/", SearchView.as_view(), name="search"),
+    url(r"^api/statistics/", StatisticsView.as_view(), name="statistics"),
     url(r"^api/token/", views.obtain_auth_token), url(r"^api/", include((api_router.urls, 'drf'), namespace="drf")),
 
     # Favicon