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:

    “This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

    “O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)