communiqué vs statement

communiqué

noun
  • An official report or statement, such as a government press release or the report of a conference. 

statement

noun
  • A presentation of opinion or position. 

  • A declaration or remark. 

  • An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call. 

  • A document that summarizes financial activity. 

verb
  • To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs. 

How often have the words communiqué and statement occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )