ethnicity
Period life expectancy at birth, females
Māori female (2022–2024) compared with All ethnic groups, female (2022–2024). Period 2022–2024.
Raw gap
5.5 years shorter
78 vs 83.5 years
Official adjusted gap
Not published
An explained share is not published — CivicNZ does not invent one.
Period life expectancy already summarises age-specific death rates. Stats NZ has not published a further official adjustment of this gap for NZDep, smoking, obesity, diabetes, rurality, or access to care.
Measured factors
- Applied
Age structure (age-standardised rates)
Life tables are built from age-specific death rates. This is not a crude death-rate comparison.
- Stratified
Neighbourhood deprivation (NZDep)
Stats NZ publishes life expectancy by NZDep separately (11.0 years male / 9.1 years female, least vs most deprived). Ethnicity × NZDep life tables are not in this release.
- Context only
Obesity prevalence
Adult obesity is published by NZDep (47.8% in Q5). An ethnicity-adjusted life-expectancy model using obesity is not published here.
- Context only
Daily smoking prevalence
Daily smoking is higher for Māori (14.7%) than European/Other (6.1%) in NZHS 2023/24. That is not an official life-expectancy adjustment.
- Context only
Diabetes prevalence
Age-standardised diabetes is 82.1 per 1,000 for Māori vs 33.1 for European/Other (VDR 2024). Not used to adjust life expectancy.
- Not published
Rurality (Geographic Classification for Health)
HIR 2025 notes 18% of people lived rurally in 2023. No official rural-adjusted life-expectancy gap is in this release.
- Not published
GP enrolment
No official GP-enrolment-adjusted life-expectancy table.
- Not published
GP visits
No official GP-visit-adjusted life-expectancy table.
- Not published
Travel time to care
No official travel-time-adjusted life-expectancy table.
Life expectancy at birth by ethnic group, 2022–2024 (Stats NZ via HIR 2025 Table 1)
| Group | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| All ethnic groups | 80.1 | 83.5 |
| Māori | 73.7 | 78.0 |
| Pacific peoples | 74.9 | 78.9 |
| Asian peoples | 85.0 | 87.6 |
| European/Other | 81.3 | 84.4 |
Period life tables. Cross-tab of ethnicity × NZDep is not published in this table.
Life expectancy gap by NZDep (least vs most deprived), 2022–2024
| Sex | Gap (years) |
|---|---|
| Female | 9.1 |
| Male | 11.0 |
One-way deprivation gradient. Not an ethnicity-adjusted figure.
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