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The German health ministry has issued a correction after it published inflated numbers on COVID-19 hospitalisations as part of its “fact booster” awareness campaign.

New statistics released by India’s federal government suggest the Chinese coronavirus death toll for some states was nearly nine times greater than officially documented during a period spanning March 2020 to January 19, 2022, the Hindu reported on Sunday.

UK Asylum claims have surged to their highest level in 20 years amid the ongoing Channel Migrant Crisis, according to government data.

Japan’s population dropped by a record margin of nearly 0.4 percent year-on-year as of January 1, the largest decrease recorded since 2013, Kyodo News reported Wednesday. The population of Japan declined by 483,789, or 0.38 percent, from January 2020 to

Mass migration accounted for 44 per cent of France’s population growth in 2017, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE).

The European Union has recommended member states record statistics on ethnicity to assess the effectiveness of the integration of migrants and monitor discrimination.

Johns Hopkins University of Medicine held a press briefing on Capitol Hill on the coronavirus and the launch of a data-tracking website.

As always, it is crucial to look out for political spin in the reporting of emotive statistics, such as the ADL’s report on antisemitic attacks.

Britons who get married before the age of 30 are now in a minority, according to official new data showing that the number of religious marriages has declined to a record low.

The Vatican released its annual yearbook for 2019 Wednesday along with its most recent official statistics, which shows growth in Church membership on all continents.

Homicides in England and Wales are at their highest rate for decade, as official statistics reveal a rise in fatal stabbings, with largest increases in the numbers of young, male, and black victims.

Some 360 million glasses of champagne are on tap for NYE and babysitters are raking in an average of $17.88 an hour.

Data analysis pioneer and political prognosticator Nate Silver predicts that Republicans only have a slim chance of maintaining their majority in the House of Representatives when the votes are counted in two weeks.

Democrats and the media have hyped high estimates of Hurricane Maria’s death toll in Puerto Rico to link Trump to Hurricane Katrina.

Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced Tuesday that he would sign an executive order revising the official death toll from last year’s Hurricane Maria to 2,975, based on numbers from a George Washington University study released earlier that day.

Violent crime is up across the country, but in some pockets of California, violent offenses — including murder, rape, robbery and assault — are up twice the national average, according to an FBI report released Monday.

Evangelical Bishop Aubrey Shines says President Donald Trump’s policy barring transgender people from the U.S. armed forces was a necessary reversal of Obama’s “forced monstrosity,” was not bigoted or controversial, and was the correct decision in terms of cost effectiveness and combat readiness.

The progressive Catholic Church in Germany continues its inexorable slide toward irrelevance as it hemorrhages members year after year, losing an additional 160,000 in 2016 according to recent reports.

Critics of President Donald Trump’s decision to bar transgender Americans from serving in the U.S. armed forces are citing a 2016 RAND Corporation study that, they claim, refutes “the idea that transgender soldiers are somehow expensive, or that they undermine the morale and cohesion of the military over all,” as the New Yorker put it.

Two University of Kentucky students were arrested for allegedly trying to steal an upcoming statistics exam after the professor decided to work late.

Two contradictory reports show that virtual antisemitism is rising, but actual antisemitism is falling. Public concern is driven by the idea that one leads to the other. But that is not easy to prove.

If all you read was the Sacramento Bee headline,“California exports its poor to Texas, other states, while wealthier people move in,” you might think it was true. But upon deeper inspection, it appears to be false — or, at the very least, highly debatable.

A new study has shown Germans are becoming more sceptical of officially released government statistics, especially when they relate to immigration.

For the first time in four years, Mexico saw an 8.7 percent increase in the murder rate, according to government sources. There was also a coinciding claim of a decline in kidnapping and extortion, perhaps indicating that criminal groups are once again shifting their tactics.

The Mexican government claims it has registered significant declines in kidnapping rates for 2015. Many drug war observers and Mexican citizens are very skeptical about the truth behind these government figures.