Age-standardised rate of hospitalisation in New Zealand
Publicly funded only, by health district of residence, year ended June 2023, rate per 1000 population
| Health district | Age-standardised rate of hospitalisation per 1000 population |
|---|---|
| Auckland | 214.9 |
| Bay of Plenty | 241.5 |
| Canterbury | 175.8 |
| Capital & Coast | 194.2 |
| Counties Manukau | 202.4 |
| Hawke's Bay | 242.5 |
| Hutt Valley | 265.2 |
| Lakes | 255.1 |
| MidCentral | 193.1 |
| Nelson Marlborough | 194.2 |
| Northland | 266.0 |
| South Canterbury | 218.4 |
| Southern | 206.6 |
| Tairāwhiti | 232.3 |
| Taranaki | 259.7 |
| Waikato | 240.4 |
| Wairarapa | 210.2 |
| Waitematā | 228.4 |
| West Coast | 239.8 |
| Whanganui | 248.2 |
Definitions
Publicly-funded discharges: Publicly funded hospital events at public or private hospitals. When a patient is discharged from hospital, a clinical coder will assign an ICD code for the diagnosis and one for external cause of morbidity or mortality (if it applies).
Procedures: Hospital procedures. Codes are assigned using ACHI (Australian Classification of Health Interventions).
District: Health district of patient's residence (based on domicile).
Number of hospitalisations: the number of hospital discharges or procedures in a given time period.
Rate of hospitalisations: the number of hospital discharges or procedures relative to the number of people in the population in a given time period. Hospitalisation rates are typically reported per 1,000 people in the population.
Data calculation/treatment
Rates are per 1,000 and age-standardised to the World Health Organization's standard world population. The populations used to calculate rates re by prioritised ethnicity and district. These population estimates were supplied to Te Whatu Ora as customised datasets from Stats NZ. The best available resident population (using estimates where possible, and projections otherwise) as at 30 June for each year was used for analyses.
Data provided by
Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand
Dataset name
National Minimum Dataset: Publicly funded hospitalisations by district 2023
Webpage:
https://tewhatuora.shinyapps.io/hospitals-web-tool/
How to find the data
Figure.NZ placed all tables in one Excel file for processing purposes.
At URL provided, under 'Publicly funded hospitalisations' tab:
- select 'Over time' to obtain data for New Zealand. Select 'Overview' under 'Select a group' option and click on 'Download data' and select '.csv' and 'All data'.
- Select 'Sex' under 'Select a group' option and click on 'Download data' and select '.csv' and 'All data'
- Repeat to obtain data by districts.
Under 'Publicly funded hospitalisations' tab:
- select 'By year'. Select 'District' under the 'Select a group' option and 'All sex' under 'Select sex' option. Click on 'Download data' and select '.csv' and 'All data'.
Import & extraction details
File as imported: National Minimum Dataset: Publicly funded hospitalisations by district 2023
From the dataset National Minimum Dataset: Publicly funded hospitalisations by district 2023, this data was extracted:
- Rows: 2-2,080
- Columns: 6-7
- Provided: 4,158 data points
This data forms the table Health - Publicly funded hospital discharges, injuries and procedures by sex and by health district Year ended June 2013–2023.
Dataset originally released on:
November 27, 2025
About this dataset
This dataset contains summarised data showing publicly funded hospitalisation data from Te Whatu Ora's National Minimum Dataset (NMDS) – Health New Zealand.
Method of collection/Data provider
The publicly funded data presented in this web tool includes all public and private health sector records reported by district health boards (DHBs) and other hospitals to Te Whatu Ora for patients discharged from 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2020 and whose care was publicly funded.