statistics

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Pyongyang depends on China for up to 95 percent of total trade and 85 percent of its exports, according to 2022 statistics from the National Committee on North Korea, a Washington-based think tank.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

To look at Robinson's statistics would shed no light on the reason for his absence.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

The CSO had previously estimated that GDP fell by 2%, a figure used by the European Union’s statistics agency when it estimated that the eurozone economy grew by just 0.1% in the first quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

There’s a reason Musk bought Twitter, a reason Pratt talks the way he does about statistics, and a reason amateur creators blow so much money on their A.I. bills.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

In this sense, statistics is to probability as engineering is to physics—an applied science based on a more intellectually stimulating foundational discipline.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos