Story: Death rates and life expectancy

English death certificate

Unhealthy city

Healthy New Zealand

Māori birth and death registration

Deaths from communicable diseases, 1876–1976

Percentage of deaths at different ages, Māori and non-Māori, 1886–2006

Pākehā family, 1870s

Gender patterns in life expectancy

Early analysis of death from disease

Early analysis of deaths from lung disease

Diet and life expectancy

Settler prosperity

Declining Māori population

Non-Māori female death rates and life expectancy, 1876–2013

Māori family, 1770s

Golgotha or Korokota

Tangi, about 1890

Measles epidemic

Māori land loss

Māori dwelling, 1900s

Monument to flu victims

Influenza advice

Smallpox vaccination certificate

Fighting tuberculosis

Life expectancy at birth, Māori and non-Māori

Māori female death and life expectancy rates, 1886–2013

Life expectancy, 1950s–2010s

Death rates by cause, 2015

'Pick the tick' campaign

Active older people

Death rates for people aged 64–79 years