The invention provides a statistical analysis method and apparatus. The method comprises the steps of scanning a specified storage position to obtain a scanning result; dividing the scanning result toobtain one or more groups; scheduling the groups to allocate calculation nodes to the groups; calculating the groups by utilizing the calculation nodes to obtain calculation results; and performing statistics on the calculation results to obtain a statistical result. According to the statistical analysis method and apparatus provided by the invention, the statistical efficiency is high; the manpower is greatly saved; and an effective data report can be quickly provided for users, so that a storage resource usage condition of a data center is monitored and a reference is provided for the decision of the users.