Births and Deaths: June 2010 quarter

In the June 2010 year:

• 64,120 live births were registered in New Zealand, up 1,160 from 62,960 in 2009.
  
  
• 79 percent of the increase in births was due to an increase in the number of babies born to women living in the Auckland region.
  
  
• The total fertility rate was 2.2 births per woman.
  
  
• 28,840 deaths were registered.
  
  
• The age-standardised death rate was 3.9 deaths per 1,000 mean estimated population, down from 4.8 in 2000.
  
  
• The infant mortality rate was 5.1 deaths per 1,000 live births.
  
  
• Births exceeded deaths by 35,280.