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 growing of food and the growing of children are both vital to the family’s survival.... Who would dare make the judgment that holding your youngest baby on your lap is less important than weeding a few more yards in the maize field? Yet this is the judgment our society makes constantly. Production of autos, canned soup, advertising copy is important. Housework—cleaning, feeding, and caring—is unimportant.”
—Debbie Taylor (20th century)
“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)