vital statistics

1. 1.

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

   Broaderstatistic

   statistics

Questions about vital statistics

What does vital statistics mean?

vital statistics means "data relating to births and deaths and health and diseases and marriages".

Is vital statistics a common word?

vital statistics is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.