Vital Statistics

VITAL STATISTICS

Introduction

Demography is a term, generally, concerned with human population and it is also concerned with the social implications of periodical variations taking place in the population with reference to geographical location(s).

Vital Statistics is a branch of Demography, which is the science applied to the analysis and interpretation of numerical facts regarding vital events occurring in human population such as births, deaths, marriages, divorces, migration etc.

The following are some of the important definitions of Vital Statistics:

“The whole study of mankind by heredity or environment in so far as the results of their study can be arithmetically stated”

–Arthur Newsholme

“Vital Statistics are conventional numerical records of marriages, births, sickness and deaths by which the health and growth of a community may be studied”.

–Benjamin

Vital Statistics is the science of numbers applied to the life history of communities or regions.