Birth rate up slightly
?A Wellington New Zealand’s annual birth rate increased slightly in the year to December 31, said the Government Statistician (Mr E. A. Harris) yesterday. The quarterly birth rate to December 31 also showed an increase on the previous quarter, Mr Harris said. The birthrate per 1000 mean population in 1979
was 16.73, an increase of .42 on the rate for 1978. The figure for the quarter to December 31 showed an increase of .45 on the rate . for the previous quarter. However, both the yearly and the quarterly rates were well below the figures for 1977 when the . annual rate reached 17.32 and the quarterly rate was 17.13. The annual death rate also increased slightly,
reaching 8.12 to December 31, 1979, compared with 7.88 for the previous year. In real figures, 25,367 deaths were registered in 1979 compared with 24,669 in 1978. The natural, increase, or the excess of births over deaths, contributed 26,904 to the population gain in 1979. The figures for the previous years were 26,360 and 28,218 respectively.
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