What is Statistics?
In plural sense- refers to any group of numerical or quantitative data.

Example:
births, deaths, and marriages found in the civil registry data
on production, employment, sales, prices found in magazines and newspapers
school records on enrolment, dropouts, failures and graduates
number of decided and undecided cases in court records and many more

In singular sense- a branch in mathematics or a science that deals with methods of gathering (collection), processing, presentation, and analysis, and interpretation of numerical/ quantitative data.