FOI Ref: ​FOI/2021/3229

You asked

Could you please inform me of the average age of death from Covid-19 in the UK from March 2020 to October 2021?

We said

Thank you for your request.

ONS only hold death mortality data for England and Wales. For Scotland and Northern Ireland data you will need to contact National Records of Scotland and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Centre, respectively.

Average age of death (median and mean) of people whose death was due to (from) COVID-19 or involved COVID-19, by sex, deaths registered monthly from March 2020 to October 2021, England and Wales is available in our monthly mortality analysis publication.  You can access the reference table directly here.

If you would like to discuss this query further, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk.