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From Pootle's Translate Toolkit, seems a valid use case for translation coordinators: «Create word, string and file counts of your files. Making it much easier to budget time as string counts do not give you a good indication of expected work».
Special:LanguageStats and Special:MessageGroupStats would benefit from a switch making them calculate completion in this way rather than by string count.
Data we already have somewhere in DB is approximate character count (byte size); now with TUX, maybe relevant, also hard translations.