Statistics

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• In 2005–2007, male life expectancy at birth was 79.0 years for non-Māori and 70.4 years for Māori, a difference of 8.6 years.

• The death rate for Māori males is approximately twice that of non-Māori males.

• Leading causes of death for Māori men include cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and respiratory disease.

• Māori men are 1.5 times more likely to be current smokers than men in the total population.

• The biggest age group for the Maori male population is aged between 0-14, followed by the 25-44 age group.

• It is projected that by 2016 there will be 357,400 Maori men. By 2026 there will be 403,400 Maori men.

• 22.8% of Maori men have a total personal income less than $10,000

• The majority of Maori men (69.6%) do not live in their own home

• 80% of Maori men (aged 16-65 years) have poor (level 1/2) health literacy

• 41.9% of Maori males between 15-64 smoke

• 88.7% of Maori males have consumed alcohol in the past 12 months (15-64 years)

• 32.6% of Maori males have used cannabis in the past 12 months (15-64 years)

• 29.1% of Maori makes have 3 or more servings of vegetables and 2 or more of fruit per day

• Ischaemic heart disease
• Lung cancer
• Diabetes
• Suicide
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• The most common cause of cancer is lung cancer, followed by prostate cancer, colorectal and stomach and liver.

• Maori men are nearly twice as likely to suffer from asthma as non-Maori men

• Maori men have more than three times as many hospital admission for COPD