Statistical release: Niue Vital Statistics Report: 1987 – 2011
Vital Statistics are the information maintained by a government, recording the birth and death of individuals within that government’s jurisdiction. These data or statistical information is not only used by government and public health to provide evidence based policy and decision making but also to evaluate how effective their programs are.
This report is the analysis of Niue’s births and deaths from 1987 to 2011. Data was provided by the Health Departments and the Department of Justice, Lands, and Survey and the records from the National Statistics Office.
This is the first demographic report on vital statistics and causes of deaths with data provided from the national civil registrations systems (Births and Deaths registrations) 1987 – 2011.
The full report is available by clicking the link above.
A summary of the report is shown below:
| Vitals indicators | 1987-1991 | 1992-1996 | 1997-2001 | 2002-2006 | 2007-2011 |
| Total number of births | 230 | 172 | 133 | 138 | 124 |
| Sex ratio at birth | 102 | 112 | 87 | 75 | 100 |
| Crude birth rate | 19.9 | 15.7 | 13.4 | 16.0 | 15.8 |
| Total fertility rate | 3.2 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 2.8 |
| Total number of deaths | |||||
| Crude death rate | 6.6 | 6.3 | 8.2 | 9.9 | 8.3 |
| Under 5 mortality | 13.0 | 11.6 | 37.6 | 21.7 | 16.1 |
| Infant mortality rate | 13.0 | 11.6 | 30.2 | 14.5 | 8.1 |
| Life expectancy | |||||
| Males | 71.1 | 68.2 | 67.2 | 67.8 | 70.1 |
| Females | 76.2 | 77.1 | 73.9 | 74.0 | 76.3 |
| Adult mortality rate | |||||
| Males | 12.6 | 18.7 | 18.9 | 32.8 | 17.0 |
| Females | 3.6 | 5.2 | 9.9 | 4.0 | 6.6 |
| NCD mortality, probability of dying | 13.0 | 21.6 | 12.0 | ||
| Leading cause of death | Cancer | Heart diseases | Heart diseases | Heart diseases | |
| Under 5 | Perinatal conditions | ||||
| 15 - 59 | External causes | ||||
| 60+ | Cancer/heart diseases |