World Statistics Day
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Key facts
- Date
- 20 October
- Frequency
- Every five years
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- world day
- Official name
- 世界统计日
- Main subject
- statistics
- Official website
- www.un.org/zh/observances/statistics-day
- Image
- Standard Normal Distribution-en.svg
- Motto
- 优质统计和数据推动变革，造福每个人
- Organizer
- United Nations
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- day in year for periodic occurrence
- October 20
- inception
- 2010-06-03
- event interval
- 5
- start time
- 2010-10-20
- commemorates
- statistics
- hashtag
- WorldStatisticsDay
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Encyclopedic overview
World Statistics Day is an international day to celebrate statistics. Created by the United Nations Statistical Commission, it was first celebrated on 20 October 2010, 20-10-2010. The day is celebrated every five years.
As of 2010, 103 countries celebrate a national Statistics Day, including 51 African countries that jointly celebrate African Statistics Day annually on 18 November. India celebrates its statistics day on 29 June, the birthday of the statistician Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis. The Royal Statistical Society in the UK also launched its getstats statistical literacy campaign on the same day at 20:10 (on 20 October 2010).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “World Statistics Day” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.