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Mortality Data for New Zealand

Source: R/datasets.R
nzmort.Rd

Counts of deaths and population, by age, sex, and calendar year, plus mortality rates, for New Zealand, 2021-2022.

Usage

nzmort

Format

A data frame with 84 rows and the following variables:

  • year: Calendar year.

  • gender: "Female", and "Male".

  • age: Age, in life table age groups, with an open age group of 95+.

  • deaths: Counts of deaths, randomly rounded to base 3.

  • popn: Estimates of average annual population.

  • mx: Mortality rates (deaths / popn).

Source

Modified from data in tables "Deaths by age and sex (Annual-Dec)" and "Estimated Resident Population by Age and Sex (1991+) (Annual-Dec)" from Stats NZ online database Infoshare, downloaded on 24 September 2023.