vital statistic
English
editNoun
editvital statistic (plural vital statistics)
- A single important number derived from public health data or personal measurements.
- 1995, Françoise Sagan, Richard Seaver, A Fleeting Sorrow: A Novel, page 11:
- Except for the fact that the "matter" of which he was now a vital statistic was simply unbearable to him. His death would come as a shock to him […]