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Story: Taupori Māori – Māori population change

Life expectancy at birth

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This graph shows how Māori life expectancy for both males and females has trailed that of non-Māori.

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Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Source: I. Pool, 'Mortality trends and differentials.’  In Population of New Zealand / Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific 12, 2 vols. New York: United Nations, 1985, vol. 1, pp. 209–242.

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Ian Pool rāua ko Tahu Kukutai, Taupori Māori – Māori population change – Decades of despair, 1840–1900, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/graph/31318/life-expectancy-at-birth (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ian Pool rāua ko Tahu Kukutai, published 10 May 2011.