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According to w3counter ff and ie are neck to neck.

https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php

Last month ff was ahead

It depends on the country. In Germany Firefox is actually the most popular browser according to usage statistics (even ahead of Chrome).

Source: http://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/13007/umfrage/... (German statistics office. Paywalled sadly, but you can see the first paragraph that describes Firefox market share at 52%.)

Just FYI, Statista is a private company. You may be thinking of http://destatis.de/, which is the homepage of the German federal office for statistics.

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