7 sentences with “statistics”

The economist analyzed the figures and statistics to determine the most appropriate economic policies for the country's development.

Real growth rates were lost in a haze of false statistics, and technology had failed to keep up with Western standards.

I confessed that I had been studying the statistics, especially the ten-year survival rates after the operation, and showed him the documents the radiologist had given me.

The results are reflected in some simple statistics: from 1500 to 1700, some part of Europe was at war 90% of the time. There were only four years of peace in the entire 17th century.

In the face of this defeat, research focused on statistics. The results did not shed much light, since the characteristics of the lives of geniuses do not go to the extreme of the unattainable: healthy physical build, an intelligent and educated family, some kind of education different from the usual.

The macabre statistics do not end there. In that area of Sweden, caesium-137 levels have reached 137,000 Becquerel (bq) per square metre. This means that in the days immediately following the Chernobyl disaster, 30 times more radioactive material has fallen there than was developed in forty years of nuclear testing.

Some of these can be captured in the statistics: royal governments grew by approximately 400% in size (i.e. in terms of the number of officials they employed and the tax revenues they raised) over the course of the 17th century, and standing armies grew from about 20,000 men during the 16th century to over 150,000 by the end of the 17th century.