Comparison of Maori vs New Zealand Whole Population



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Treating each person that self-identified as at least partially Māori as a part of the total Māori population in the 2018 census, this figure shows the implied percentage of the New Zealand population that identifies as ethnically Maori vs ethnically other.



Throughout the period 2016 - 2018, the overall rates of injury among the Māori population and the whole population were roughly the same, including the relative rates of severity across all injuries.




The two charts above show the five most common injury causes among the whole population and Māori population, respectively, for the year 2018. Clearly, the Māori population suffers significantly higher rates of Assault and Motor vehicle traffic crashes and significatly lower rates of Falls (at about 40% of the rate of the whole population).


Takeaways: Roughly 16 percent of people in New Zealand (2018) are of the Māori ethnicity. This is a significant amount, and although the overall rate of injury among the Māori and entire population in 2018 is very similar, some of the rates at which Māori experience certain injuries are significantly different from the rate of the population as a whole. The most obvious differences are higher rates of assault and motor vehicle crashes. In addition to these, the breakdown of severity among intentional self harm is intriguing. The overall rates among the two populations are similar, although Māori experienced fewer fatalities among the self-inflited injuries.


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