According to official statistics, at least, the city-wide murder rate is significantly reduced.
And while some criticise Beijing's statistics, at least it publishes regular economic performance measures.
That utopianism was undermined by some statistics, not least those that showed the "crisis of masculinity" at its most extreme.
According to ASK's statistics, at least 1,008 women were raped in 2012 in Bangladesh, of whom 98 were later killed.
(The U.S spends about nine thousand dollars per person. Italy, which has health statistics at least as good as ours, spends about thirty-five hundollarsllars).
According to UN statistics, at least 30 unarmed Palestinians, including 5 children, have been killed or seriously injured by Israeli troops for being too close to the Gaza border since the Israeli disengagement.
And if you look at statistics, at least a quarter of our calories come from added sugars (seven percent from beverages alone), white flour, white rice, white pasta … are you seeing a pattern here?
But we know that the eight colleges of the Ivy League released their admissions decisions earlier this evening, so we thought we'd share news on their overall statistics — at least so individual applicants can put their own decisions in perspective.
At the same time there is a growing number of stories based on the interrogation and mining of statistics, not least because the world has been in the grip of a financial crisis that no longer is confined to the business pages.
True to the statistics, at least half of my friends came of age through a divorce.
