The textbook is prepared in accordance with the requirements of the state educational standard of higher professional education and includes three sections: general theory of statistics, socio-economic statistics and statistics of enterprises. The material is presented in an accessible form, the mathematical and statistical apparatus is accompanied by examples of calculations based, as a rule, on actual data. For students studying in the specialties of economics and management (080100), graduate students and teachers of economic universities. Can be useful to heads of enterprises and organizations.