Updated August 2015 with revised total New Zealand population counts and corresponding age-standardised mortality rates (number of deaths remain unchanged).
Summary
These tables contain information on the underlying causes of all deaths registered in New Zealand in 2012. Information is broken down by age, sex, ethnicity, district health board and ICD-10-AM chapters, subgroups and three character codes.
These tables form part of the Mortality and Demographic Data annual series. The full publication, based on this data, will be released in November 2015.
This data is sourced from the Mortality Collection.
Key mortality statistics – 2012
Total | Male | Female | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Māori | 3,064 | 1,643 | 1,421 |
| Non-Māori | 27,213 | 13,505 | 13,708 |
| Total | 30,277 | 15,148 | 15,129 |
Total | Male | Female | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Māori | 649.3 | 743.3 | 567.6 |
| Non-Māori | 362.0 | 425.1 | 305.9 |
| Total | 393.6 | 463.0 | 332.7 |
* Age-standardised mortality rate (WHO World Standard Population), per 100,000 population.
Publishing information
- Publication date
- Citation
Ministry of Health. 2015. Mortality 2012 online tables. Wellington: Ministry of Health.
- Copyright status
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Owned by the Ministry of Health and licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.
