World Statistics Day

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World Statistics Day
Date20 October
FrequencyEvery five years

World Statistics Day is an international day to celebrate statistics. Created by the United Nations Statistical Commission,[1] it was first celebrated on 20 October 2010. World Statistics Day is celebrated every five years.[2]

As of 2010, 103 countries celebrate a national Statistics Day, including 51 African countries that jointly celebrate African Statistics Day annually on 18 November.[3] India celebrates its statistics day on 29 June, the birthday of the statistician Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis.[4] 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).[5][6]

On 20 October 2025 United Nations World Statistics Day (WSD) celebrated under the theme 'driving change with quality statistics and data for everyone'.[7]

References

  1. "World Statistics Day" (PDF). United Nations. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  2. "World Statistics Day". www.un.org. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  3. "United Nations Statistics Division".
  4. ""Statistics Day" will be celebrated on 29th June, 2018".
  5. "Home". getstats.org.uk.
  6. "World Statistics Day | Statistics". statistics.unwto.org. Archived from the original on 14 October 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  7. Nations, United. "World Statistics Day". United Nations. United Nations. Retrieved 19 October 2026.