List of objects in scene with counts (verts, faces, tris)? Is there a way to see a list of all objects in the scene with the number of verts, tris, faces of each object?

I know you can click on a object and go into edit mode and it shows the numbers, but if you have many objects in a scene and you have to decrease the amount of verts in the scene this procedure gets tiresome. 

A list with all objects of the scene and their counts where you can immediately see where you could possibly remove some verts would be very handy.

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Edit: If anyone is interested the user sambler and i (independently) both wrote an addon.
Look further down for his solution.

Mine is downloadable here:
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The addon shows the geometry information of the scene.
It is sortable and you can select an object by clicking on the button.
With some inspiration from the other answers I made an addon to show mesh information.

You can save this link to your addon folder or to somewhere convenient and use the Install from file button in the preferences. As awi's step of using bmesh to calculate the vertices after modifiers are applied takes some time in larger scenes, even without modifiers (a few seconds with a million verts scene) I have displaying that count as an option.

When you enable the addon there is an option to set how many mesh objects are listed (default is 5). The list is sorted by the true vertex count so you can easily see what objects have the vertices. Also large numbers are nicely truncated with k,M,G suffixes to make for easier reading.

Once enabled you can find the Mesh Information panel under scene properties.