An extract from the Statistics NZ website. The natural increase (births minus deaths) was 24,237 which was also down slightly on the 24,593 for the year ended 30 June 2020.
NZ births and deaths were both down slightly in the year ended 30 June 2021
11 Saturday Sep 2021
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ARE SUICIDE FIGURES AVAILABLE FOR THE SAME PERIOD? If so,question how the figures were compiled. Quite possibly , under the present REGIME, a new method may have been implemented under urgency . S.
My guess is that in the figures below, less deaths attributable to ‘flu were balanced by an increase in suicides. S.
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The China virus largely replaced regular influenza, so that was probably the main cause of the drop in deaths. Suicides were probably up, we’ll send an enquiry to the Stats Department next week. Domestic violence, depression, anxiety, alcohol abuse and weight gain would have been up. We’ll do an OIA to the Police asking how DV call outs they attended compared with previous periods.
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