31 December 2022

Year to Date Preventable Drowning Fatalities for 2022 - 93

Year to Date Preventable Drowning Fatalities for 2021 - 90

Preventable Drowning Fatalities 2021 - 90

This weekly live statistics page relies on information from preventable drowning incidents gathered from coronial findings, police and news stories from across the country.

We categorised each case according to age, gender and ethnicity of the victim and nature and cause of the incident, including activity and environment.

This page is updated weekly in a 'year to date format', and you can download the raw data from each graph. For in-depth analysis go to the annual drowning reports listed on this site. 

Contents

Annual Fatalities

Region

Activity

Environment

Age

Ethnicity

Gender

Month by Month

Environment by Month

Disclaimer

Drowning data is sourced from Water Safety New Zealand’s DrownBase™ and the figures provided are provisional.

Preventable fatalities include recreational and non-recreational drowning deaths. They do not include those fatalities classified as ‘other’ (arising as a result of road or air vehicle accidents, homicide, suicide or of unknown origin) as these are not considered applicable to the prevention and rescue efforts of the water safety sector.