Death WITH Covid mortality rates by age group in New Zealand as at 14th March 2022:

Age group Deaths with Covid Recovered Total  Mortality rate
0 – 9 1 18,848 18,849 0.0%
10 – 19 0 39,919 39,919 0.0%
20 – 29 0 47,842 47,842 0.0%
30 – 39 2 33,493 33,495 0.0%
40 – 49 8 22,112 22,120 0.0%
50 – 59 9 14,721 14,730 0.1%
60 – 69 13 6,886 6,899 0.2%
70 – 79 22 2,445 2,467 0.9%
80 – 89 30 720 750 4.0%
90 + 17 130 147 11.6%
Unknown 0 0 0 n/a
Total 102 187,116 187,218 0.05%
  • The death with Covid mortality rate is now 0.05% for the New Zealand population
  • This is a more than 6x decrease from 0.36% as at Jan 31st 2022
  • The primary reason for this is, of course, the Omicron variant

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NOTES:

  • The true mortality rate is likely considerably lower than 0.05% due to the number of unreported cases.
  • The Ministry of Health data provides Covid death and recovery rates by age, but not the mortality percentage which we have calculated by dividing deaths by (deaths plus recovered).
  • Death figures are of those who died with Covid, not necessarily because of it. Primary cause of death and co-morbidity data has not yet been made public. We have put in several Official Information Act requests to try to obtain this.
  • 102 deaths is a small sample due to the 0.05% death rate, but the recovered sample size is significant at 187,116.
  • We have not commented on any long-term side-effects from getting Covid, or not, as that is not yet well researched, understood, or published.
  • All numbers are provisional and subject to revision.
  • If you would like the full data analysis workings, please contact us.

SOURCE:

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-case-demographics

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For the Jan 31st data table, please visit https://thefacts.nz/social/covid-mortality-rate-by-age/.

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