vital statistics

pl.n.1. Statistics concerning the important events in human life, such as births, deaths, marriages, and migrations.2. Informal The dimensions of a person's body, especially of a woman's body as measured around bust, waist, and hips.

vital statistics

pl n 1. (Statistics) quantitative data concerning human life or the conditions and aspects affecting it, such as the death rate 2. informal the measurements of a woman's bust, waist, and hips

vi′tal statis′tics

n.pl. 1. statistics concerning human life or the conditions affecting human life and the maintenance of population, as deaths, births, and marriages. 2. Facetious. the measurements of a woman's figure, esp. the bust, waist, and hips. [1830–40]

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Noun

vital statistics - data relating to births and deaths and health and diseases and marriagesstatistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parametersstatistic - a datum that can be represented numerically

Translations

misure femminilistatistica demografica

vital statistics

vital statistics,

primarily records of the number of births and deaths in a populationpopulation,
the inhabitants of a given area, but perhaps most importantly, the human inhabitants of the earth (numbering about 7.5 billion in 2017), who by their increasing numbers and corresponding increasing needs can seriously affect the global ecosystem.
..... Click the link for more information. . Other factors, such as number of marriages and causes of death, by age groups, are regularly included. From these records can be computed birthrates and death (or mortality) rates from which trends are determined. The earliest known system of vital statistics was in China. In England the clergy was required as early as the 16th cent. to keep records of christenings, marriages, and burials; during the 17th cent. the clergy in France, Italy, and Spain began to keep similar records. The oldest continuous national records system is that of Sweden (since 1741). The clergy and government officials in the colonies of North America began to record vital statistics in the 17th cent.; on a national level, the U.S. government started publishing annual records of deaths in 1900 and of births in 1915. The most striking trend shown by recent vital statistics is the rapid increase of the populations of nonindustrial countries due to a sharp decline in the mortality rate and an acceleration of the birthrate.

Bibliography

See United Nations Statistical Office, Handbook of Vital Statistics Methods (1955); R. Pressat, Demographic Analysis (tr. 1972).

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See DEMOGRAPHY.

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[stah-tis´tiks] 1. a collection of numerical data.2. the mathematical science dealing with the collection, analysis, and interpretation of numerical data using the theory of probability, especially with methods for drawing inferences about characteristics of a population from examination of a random sample.vital statistics data, usually collected by governmental bodies, detailing the rates of birth, death, disease, marriage, and divorce in a population.

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systematically tabulated information concerning births, marriages, divorces, separations, and deaths, based on the numbers of official registrations of these vital events; the branch of statistics concerned with such data.

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pl.n. Statistics concerning the important events in human life, such as births, deaths, marriages, and migrations.

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Epidemiology Systematically tabulated information about births, deaths, marriages, and divorces, based on registration of vital events

vi·tal sta·tis·tics

(vī'tăl stă-tis'tiks) Systematically tabulated information concerning births, marriages, divorces, separations, and deaths, based on the numbers of official registrations of these vital events; the branch of statistics concerned with such data.

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Figures of births, marriages and deaths in a population, from which the rate of natural increase or decrease in the population can be calculated. Vital statistics also indicate life expectancy at birth and the main causes of death.

vi·tal sta·tis·tics

(vī'tăl stă-tis'tiks) Systematically tabulated information concerning births, marriages, divorces, separations, and deaths.

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

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