The phrase "a lack of figures" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there are insufficient numerical data or statistics available.
Example: "The report was inconclusive due to a lack of figures to support the findings."
Alternatives: "insufficient data" or "absence of statistics".
For too long in the US, there had been a lack of hard figures on the number of horses fatally injured in race-related accidents each year.
The survey comes at a time when many Democrats are worried about a lack of Democratic figures of national stature and their trouble conveying a clear image to the public.
Exasperated civil rights leaders pointed to the stability of Brown's family life as evidence against repeated claims that a lack of father figures, or broken homes, are to blame for violence blighting the lives of many African-American boys.
Other criticism of the proposals, and a lack of concrete figures about their likely impact, highlighted how little room for maneuver Mr. Cameron had because of European rules, and because of worries that a crackdown would alienate trading partners in fast-growing non-European countries.
Yet the Lib Dems' membership and institutions remain broadly left-leaning; one insider frets about a lack of prominent figures doing the "big thinking" about a Cleggite future, especially if the current leader's praetorian guard lose their seats, as seems possible.Really, the outcome depends on the arithmetic of the next parliament.
Some 20,000 girls in England and Wales are thought to be at risk, according to government estimates, but there is a lack of accurate figures.
However, there is a lack of precise figures describing the magnitude of this problem.
A visible cell wall was often not detected between newly budded cells indicating a lack of cytokinesis (Figure 1E).
While coalition troop fatalities are reasonably well documented, deaths of Iraqi civilians and combatants are more difficult to track because of a lack of reliable official figures.
The introduced mutation had a dramatic inhibitory effect on mTORC1 activity (Figure 4A) and lead to a lack of muscle differentiation (Figure S2).
