The textbook discusses basic statistical methods for collecting, presenting, summarizing, and analyzing mass data related to social or economic phenomena and processes. The problems of measuring socio-economic phenomena, the formation of a system of indicators (primarily used in the practice of international comparisons) are reflected. A system of indicators of statistics of national wealth, living standards of the population, financial market, output of goods and services and others is presented. The textbook is replete with numerous practical examples that increase the availability of the material studied.