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Birth - tables

The following tables are available to download: 


The downloadable files are in Microsoft Excel format. If you do not have access to Excel or higher you may use the Excel file viewer to view, print and export the contents of these files.

Age-specific fertility rates for the total and Māori populations

Fertility rates by single year of age for Māori (1996–2008) and total (1962–2008) populations.


Fertility rates Maori and Total.xls (221 KB)


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Age-specific fertility rates for the major ethnic groups

Fertility rates by single year of age for Māori, Pacific, Asian and European populations, 2001 and 2006. 

Births Ethnic Fertility Rates 2001 and 2006.xls (37 KB)

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Regional births and fertility rates

Live births by five-year age group for regional council areas, 1996–2008

Regional live births.xls (104KB) 

Fertility rates by five-year age group for regional council areas, 1996, 2001 and 2006.

Following a review of regional fertility rates, Statistics NZ considers that quality data can only be produced for census years. Regional fertility rates will therefore no longer be published for other years.


Regional fertility rates.xls
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Miscellaneous birth and fertility rates tables

  1. Median age of mother, nuptial, ex-nuptial and total confinements, 1962–2008
  2. Average age of mother, nuptial, ex-nuptial and total confinements, 1962–2008
  3. Median and average age of first time mothers, nuptial and total live confinements, 1962–2008
  4. Completed fertility rate for cohorts of women born 1894–1973
  5. Registered live births and crude birth rate, 1872–2008
  6. Live births by sex, 1971–2008


Births.xls (104 KB)


Some information previously included in the above downloadable tables is now available from Infoshare. A guide to finding this information follows.
Subject Category   Group Table 

 Population

Demography Fertility Measures Reproduction rates, December years (Māori and total population) (Annual-Dec)

 Population

Vital Statistics – Births Resident live births by city/district by sex (Māori child and total population) (Annual-Dec)
 Population Vital Statistics – Births Resident live births by region by sex (Māori child and total population) (Annual-Dec)

 

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Top 100 babies' names for girls and boys

Data for 1999–2003. These tables will not be updated.

Babies names.xls (67 KB)

The top 100 babies' names for boys and girls for each year since 2004 are available on the Department of Internal Affairs website.


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Part 2 of Demographic Trends 2007 contains the following tables on births.

Table No. Description
2.01
Live and still births, by nuptiality, 1964–2006
2.02 Live births, by ethnicity, 1996–2006
2.03 Live births, by Māori descent, 1996–2006
2.04 Live births by ethnicity of mother and child, year ended 31 December 2006
2.05 Live births, by mother's age and ethnicity, 1998–2006
2.06 Single and multiple births, by live/still combination, 1971–2006
2.07 Confinements resulting in live and still births, by mother's age, year ended 31 December 2006
2.08 Live nuptial confinements, by mother's previous births, 1962–2006
2.09 Live nuptial confinements, by mother's age and previous births (parity), 1962–2006
2.10 Selected fertility rates, total population, 1962–2006

2.11

Selected fertility rates, Māori population, 1962–2006
2.12 Total fertility rate, New Zealand and selected countries, 1994–2006
2.13 Age-specific fertility rates, New Zealand and selected countries, latest available years
2.14 Age-specific fertility rates, total population, 1962–2006

2.15

Age-specific fertility rates, Māori population, 1962–2006
2.16 Age-specific nuptial and ex-nuptial fertility rates, 1962–2006
2.17 Cumulative fertility rates by selected ages, cohorts of women born 1905–1986

2.18

Ages by which 25, 50 and 75 percent of total childbearing has been completed by women born 1905–1973

2.19

Live births by regional council area, 1993–2006
7.08 Known pregnancies and crude abortion ratios, by age, 1996–2006
7.09 Known pregnancies and pregnancy rates, by age, 1996–2006


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