VITAL STATISTICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vital statistics mean? 

• VITAL STATISTICS (noun)
  The noun VITAL STATISTICS has 1 sense:

1. data relating to births and deaths and health and diseases and marriages

  Familiarity information: VITAL STATISTICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VITAL STATISTICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Data relating to births and deaths and health and diseases and marriages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("vital statistics" is a kind of...):

statistic (a datum that can be represented numerically)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

 Context examples 

Statistics about births, deaths, marriages, and divorces are sometimes called "vital statistics."

(Health Statistics, NIH)