Summary of Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee (CYMRC) reports

CYMRC data reports, special reports and annual reports published between 2003 and 2021

• 2021 – Fifteenth data report: 2015 to 2019 (2.3 MB, pdf)
  This report focuses on tamariki and rangatahi Māori mortality, Pacific children and young people mortality, death from sudden unexpected death in infants aged less than 12 months, death from suicide and transport as the cause of death.
  
• 2021 – Infographic of insights from the fifteenth data report (591 KB, pdf)
• 2019 – Fourteenth data report: 2013 to 2017 (3.7 MB, pdf)
• 2018 – Thirteenth data report: 2012 to 2016 (3.1 MB, pdf)
• 2016 – Twelfth data report: 2011 to 2015 (2.2 MB, pdf)
• 2015 – Eleventh data report: 2010 to 2014 (1.9 MB, pdf)
• 2014 - Tenth data report: 2009 to 2013 (2.9 MB, pdf)
• 2013 – Ninth data report: 2008 to 2012 (3 MB, pdf)
• 2013 – Ninth data report: data supplement (145 KB, pdf)
• 2012 – Eighth data report: 2007 to 2011 (1.7 MB, pdf)
• 2011 – Seventh data report: 2006 to 2010 (1.8 MB, pdf)
• 2010 – Sixth data report: 2004 to 2009 (2.9 MB, pdf) 

Annual reports to the Minister of Health

From 2001 to late 2010, the CYMRC was a ministerial committee that reported to the Minister of Health. It was supported by the Ministry of Health. The responsibility for mortality review committees moved to Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission when it was established in 2010. 

• 2009 – Fifth CYMRC report to the Minister of Health (contains CYMRC data for 2002–2008) (443 KB, pdf)
• 2008 – Fourth CYMRC report to the Minister of Health (contains CYMRC data for 2002–2005) (24 MB, pdf)
• 2006 – Third CYMRC report to the Minister of Health (contains CYMRC data for 2002–2004) (23 MB, pdf)
• 2005 – Second CYMRC report to the Minister of Health (contains CYMRC data for 2002–2003) (18 MB, pdf)
• 2004 – First CYMRC report to the Minister of Health (contains data from the Ministry of Health for 1939–99 and some CYMRC data for 2002) (14 MB, pdf)

CYMRC special reports

• 2020 – Te Mauri The life force: Rangatahi suicide report (668 KB, pdf) 
  This report was produced in partnership with the Suicide Mortality Review Committee and Ngā Pou Arawhenua (Māori Caucus of the mortality review committees).
• 2017 – Sudden unexpected death in infancy: Special report (668 KB, pdf)
• 2014 – Child and youth mortality from motorcycle, quad bike and motorised agricultural vehicle use, with a focus on deaths under age 15 years: Special report (808 KB, pdf)
• 2013 – Unintentional deaths from poisoning in young people: Special report (763 KB, pdf)
• 2013 – Unintentional suffocation, foreign body inhalation and suffocation: Special report (942 KB, pdf)
• 2011 – Low speed run over mortality report 2011 (1 MB, pdf)
• 2009 – The involvement of alcohol consumption in the deaths of children and young people in New Zealand during the years 2005–2007: Special report (422 KB, pdf)
• 2003 – Circumstances surrounding drowning in those under 25 in New Zealand (1980–2002): 2003 report in collaboration with Water Safety New Zealand (192 KB, pdf)

Other publications and resources

All CYMRC publications, including these reports, posters and information sheets, can be found in the resource library here.