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


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