In 2019, in New Zealand:
34,489 people died = ~94/day = ~97/day today after 3% population growth
At a category level, the two biggest causes of death are:
1. Circulatory system diseases, e.g. heart disease, heart attacks, strokes, haemorrhage = 30%
2. Neoplasms, e.g. cancers, tumours = 29%
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NOTES:
- This data covers death registrations between January to December 2019. It was released on December 17th 2021
- There is a two year delay from this data being released. After the Ministry of Health receives fact of death information, there is a 6-18 month process to assign a cause of death code for most deaths. The Ministry’s clinical coding team reviews the death certificate and health history of the deceased, to assign cause of death codes. Any death which requires a coronial inquiry can take 2-3 or more years for the cause of death to be assigned. The Ministry does not make mortality data available publicly until the majority of deaths have been assigned a cause of death so that the data they release is complete and accurate.
- The 2020 preliminary data will be published in December 2022
- The primary cause of death is used for each classification
- New Zealand’s population in June 2019 was 4,979,200. As of December 2021, it is approximately 5,132,000 (5,126,300 in September plus ~6,000 net births and assumes 0 net migration)
- Heart diseases/attacks include all related ICD codes from I00-I52
- Cerebrovascular diseases (ICD codes I60-I69) are commonly grouped together
- All cancers include all malignant neoplasms (ICD codes C00-96 and also ICD codes D45-47 since 2003), except for lung, colon, prostate, and breast cancers which have been split out
- Lung cancer includes C34 Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung (5.3%) and C33 Malignant neoplasm of trachea (0.0%)
- External physical causes comes from a different preliminary data release. There are still too many outstanding coronial cases to release provisional data. For 2018 external physical death causes, the #1 cause was falls with 29%, followed closely by intentional self-harm at 28%, and then transport accidents at 20%.
- F01 Vascular dementia (1.5%) and F03 Unspecified dementia (5.0%) have been combined to give a single dementia count
- E10 Type 1 diabetes mellitus (0.2%), E11 Type 2 diabetes mellitus (2.7%), and E14 Unspecified diabetes mellitus (0.1%) have been combined into a single diabetes count
- All numbers are provisional and subject to revision
Thank you to the Factors who helped us pull this research together
SOURCES:
https://minhealthnz.shinyapps.io/mortality-web-tool/ (ICD Chapter and Subgroup (2015-2019) > Download the datasets > ICD 3-character code dataset)
https://www.stats.govt.nz/topics/population
https://thefacts.nz/social/plus-1-million-population-growth-in-20-years/
Data published by Ministry of Health
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Licensed for use under the creative commons attribution licence (BY) 4.0
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