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Statistics New Zealand has completed a review of vitals outputs (births, deaths, marriages, civil unions, and divorces). As a result of this review some information previously included in downloadable tables is now available from Infoshare under the subject category Population. A guide to finding this information follows. For more information see Vitals data on Infoshare.

Downloadable table	Infoshare group	Infoshare table
Registered deaths and crude death rate	Deaths	Deaths, New Zealand residents, overseas visitors and total registrations
Registered deaths and crude death rate	Death rates	Crude death rate (Maori and total population)
Death registrations by age, sex and year of registration, total population	Deaths	Deaths by age and sex
Māori ethnic group death registrations by age, sex and year of registration	Deaths	Deaths by age and sex (Maori population)
Registered deaths by territorial authority area	Deaths	Deaths by area, city/district councils (Maori and total population)

Cause of Death data is available from the New Zealand Health Information Service website.

Part 4 of Demographic Trends 2009 contains the following tables on mortality. They include:

Table No.	Description
4.01	Infant and total deaths, 1961–2008
4.02	Deaths by ethnicity, 1996–2008
4.03	Deaths by Māori descent, 1996–2008
4.04	Deaths by ethnic group, year ended 31 December 2008
4.05	Crude, standardised, and infant death rates, total and Māori populations, 1961–2008
4.06	Deaths by age and sex, total and Māori populations, year ended 31 December 2008
4.07	New Zealand complete period life table, total population, 2005–07
4.08	New Zealand complete period life table, Māori population, 2005–07
4.09	Mortality rates by age and sex, total population, New Zealand complete period life tables, 1950–52 to 2005–07
4.10	Mortality rates by age and sex, Māori population, New Zealand complete period life tables, 1950–52 to 2005–07
4.11	Ratio of male to female mortality rates, total and Māori populations, New Zealand complete period life tables, 1950–52 to 2005–07
4.12	Ratio of Māori to non-Māori mortality rates, by age and sex, New Zealand complete period life tables, 1950–52 to 2005–07
4.13	Number of survivors at selected ages, total population by sex, New Zealand complete period life tables, 1950–52 to 2005–07
4.14	Number of survivors at selected ages, Māori population by sex, New Zealand complete period life tables, 1950–52 to 2005–07
4.15	Life expectancy at selected ages, total population by sex, New Zealand complete period life tables, 1950–52 to 2005–07
4.16	Life expectancy at selected ages, Māori population by sex, New Zealand complete period life tables, 1950–52 to 2005–07
4.17	Life expectancy at birth and age 65, regional council areas by sex, abridged period life tables, 1995–97 to 2005–07
4.18	Life expectancy at birth and age 65, selected territorial authority areas by sex, abridged period life tables, 1995–97 to 2005–07
4.19	Life expectancy at birth for OECD countries, by sex
4.20	Life expectancy at selected ages, total population by sex, New Zealand complete cohort life tables, 1876–1934
4.21	Age by which 25, 50, and 75 percent of birth cohort have died, by sex, New Zealand complete cohort life tables, 1876–1940

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