diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 00cf1046..f28cc2bb 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ version = "0.8.4"
 
 [deps]
 Random = "9a3f8284-a2c9-5f02-9a11-845980a1fd5c"
+Requires = "ae029012-a4dd-5104-9daa-d747884805df"
 Statistics = "10745b16-79ce-11e8-11f9-7d13ad32a3b2"
 
 [compat]
+Requires = "1"
 julia = "1"
 
 [extras]
diff --git a/src/FixedPointNumbers.jl b/src/FixedPointNumbers.jl
index 927d84a5..2c197aaf 100644
--- a/src/FixedPointNumbers.jl
+++ b/src/FixedPointNumbers.jl
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import Base: ==, <, <=, -, +, *, /, ~, isapprox,
              signed, unsigned, copysign, flipsign, signbit,
              length
 
-import Statistics   # for _mean_promote
+using Requires
 import Random: Random, AbstractRNG, SamplerType, rand!
 
 import Base.Checked: checked_neg, checked_abs, checked_add, checked_sub, checked_mul,
@@ -557,10 +557,6 @@ Base.mul_prod(x::FixedPoint, y::FixedPoint) = Treduce(x) * Treduce(y)
 Base.reduce_empty(::typeof(Base.mul_prod), ::Type{F}) where {F<:FixedPoint} = one(Treduce)
 Base.reduce_first(::typeof(Base.mul_prod), x::FixedPoint)  = Treduce(x)
 
-if isdefined(Statistics, :_mean_promote)
-    Statistics._mean_promote(x::Real, y::FixedPoint) = Treduce(y)
-end
-
 """
     sd, ad = scaledual(s::Number, a)
 
@@ -629,4 +625,20 @@ if VERSION >= v"1.1" # work around https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/341
     _precompile_()
 end
 
+@static if VERSION >= v"1.9.0-DEV.873"
+    function __init__()
+        # Statistics and SparseArrays are moved out from sysimage
+        # https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/44247#issuecomment-1172847231
+        @require Statistics="10745b16-79ce-11e8-11f9-7d13ad32a3b2" begin
+            Statistics._mean_promote(x::Real, y::FixedPoint) = Treduce(y)
+        end
+    end
+else
+    import Statistics
+    if isdefined(Statistics, :_mean_promote)
+        # https://github.com/JuliaMath/FixedPointNumbers.jl/pull/183
+        Statistics._mean_promote(x::Real, y::FixedPoint) = Treduce(y)
+    end
+end
+
 end # module