Source: New Zealand Ministry of Health – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Mortality 2015 data tables (provisional)
These tables contain provisional information on the underlying causes of all deaths registered in New Zealand in 2015. A ‘Quick facts’ section also includes information on rates of death by ethnicity and selected causes of mortality.
Most information is broken down by age, sex, ethnicity, district health board and statistical classification chapters, subgroups and three character codes. Information for deaths from external causes has been aggregated. Further detail will be provided when the final data for 2015 is released in 2018.
These tables form part of the Mortality and Demographic Data annual series.
This data is sourced from the Mortality Collection.
| Number of deaths | Percentage of deaths by sex | Mortality rate | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Male | Female | Male | Female | Total | Male | Female | |
| Māori | 3,413 | 1,801 | 1,612 | 52.8 | 47.2 | 648.9 | 746.5 | 567.8 |
| Non-Māori | 28,383 | 14,128 | 14,255 | 49.8 | 50.2 | 354.1 | 411.3 | 303.4 |
| Total | 31,796 | 15,929 | 15,867 | 50.1 | 49.9 | 380.1 | 441.0 | 326.1 |
Note: rates per 100,000 population, age standardised to WHO World Standard Population.
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