Births and Deaths: September 2010 quarter

In the September 2010 year:

• 63,730 live births were registered in New Zealand, up 570 from 63,160 in 2009.
  
  
• Women aged 30–34 years had the highest age-specific fertility rate (126 births per 1,000 women).
  
  
• The median age of women giving birth was 30 years.
  
  
• The total fertility rate was 2.1 births per woman.
  
  
• 28,790 deaths were registered.
  
  
• The age-standardised death rate was 3.8 deaths per 1,000 mean estimated population, down from 4.8 in 2000.
  
  
• The infant mortality rate was 5.2 deaths per 1,000 live births.
  
  
• Births exceeded deaths by 34,940.