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Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

That part of political science which is concerned in collecting and arranging facts illustrative of the condition and resources of a state. The subject is sometimes divided into
(1) historical statistics, or facts which lllustrate the former condition of a state;
(2) statistics of population;
(3) of revenue;
(4) of trade, commerce, and navigation;
(5) of the moral, social, and physical condition of the pcople. Wharton.