Library Guides: Find Statistical Data: Health

Ministry of Health

The central location for accessing NZ health data and statistics, including:

Health statistics and data sets
Statistics on many health topics, including: alcohol use, hospital events, Māori health, maternity and newborn, mental health, obesity.
Mortality web tool
Data on the underlying causes of all deaths registered in New Zealand.
New Zealand health survey
An annual survey on the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders.
Suicide web tool
Suicide data presented as trends over time, by age group, district health board of residence, ethnicity and sex.
Tier 1 health statistics
Calendar of upcoming release dates for the most important (Tier 1) health statistics.
Wai 2575 Māori health trends report
Shows changes of Māori health over the years 1990–2015, across a range of health-related indicators.

ACC statistics
Figure.nz: Pacific Data Fale o Aotearoa
Brings together data, research and reports on Pacific people in Aotearoa - see the wellbeing, health and disability sections.
Figure.nz: Pātaka Raraunga - Find data for and about Māori
Data, tools, and reports on Te Āo Māori - see the hauora health section.
Healthspace Puna ora
Online data visualisation tool for exploring geographic health data. It covers broad topics, including environmental health and alcohol-related harm.
Health Quality and Safety Commission New Zealand
Publications including statistics on a range of health programmes and topics.
New Zealand Injury Query System
Midwifery Council of New Zealand: Workforce data
Nursing Council of New Zealand: Workforce statistics
Stats NZ: Disability
Stats NZ: Te Kupenga
Key statistics on four areas of Māori cultural wellbeing: wairuatanga, tikanga, te reo Māori and whanaungatanga.

Australian Bureau of Statistics: National Health Survey
Key findings for health statistics including long-term health conditions; mental wellbeing; and health risk factors
Lowitja Institute
Australia’s national institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research.
Pacific Community - Statistics for Development: Health
Tupaia
Data aggregation, analysis and visualisation platform that works to map health systems in the Indo-Pacific region
OECD.Stat: Health
Access education and training data for OECD countries by:
- entering keyword 'health' in the search box OR
- selecting 'Health' from the left-hand menu.
UK Govt: Office for National Statistics - Health and social care
Life expectancy and the impact of factors such as occupation, illness and drug misuse.
US Govt: CDC National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Principal health statistics agency for the United States.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) provides a wide range of data collections related to global health and well-being, including:

Global health observatory data repository
A portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation.
Global Health Estimates
A comprehensive and comparable assessment of mortality and loss of health due to diseases, injuries and risk factors.
WHO Mortality Database
Annual death registration data on causes of death by age and sex as reported from civil registration systems of more than 100 Member States.