Vital Statistics

Vital statistics may refer to:

  • Vital statistics (government records), a government database recording the births and deaths of individuals within that government's jurisdiction
  • Vital statistics (measurements), a woman's bust-waist-hip measurements
  • Vital signs, measures of various physiological statistics, often taken by health professionals, in order to assess the most basic body functions
  • Vital Statistics (opera), a 1987 one-act opera about physiognomy. It was expanded in 2000, and re-titled Facing Goya
  • Vitalistics, a 2002 alternative hip-hop debut album by HKB FiNN, released under the Son Records label in the UK


Famous quotes containing the words vital and/or statistics:

    “The poet sings how the blood flows in his veins. He performs his functions, and is so well that he needs such stimulus to sing only as plants put forth leaves and blossoms.... His song is a vital function like breathing, and an integral result like weight.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.”
    —Andrew Lang (1844–1912)