"vital statistic" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1995, Françoise Sagan, Richard Seaver, A Fleeting Sorrow: A Novel, page 11:",
          "text": "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 […]",
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        "A single important number derived from public health data or personal measurements."
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          "ref": "1995, Françoise Sagan, Richard Seaver, A Fleeting Sorrow: A Novel, page 11:",
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