Abstract
Under pre-university training of foreign students for economic specialties great role plays course of economic and social geography, where statistic data take an important part. By the example of human geography we can find out a value of statistic data studying different events and processes and place of the statistic technique methods: statistic observation, comparison of statistic characteristics, comparative analysis of population of two countries, determination of general statistic rates, calculated demographical problems, graphic and cartographic pictures. As a result students learn and consolidate skills to work with figures information.