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We would like information on COVID-19 death rates across 11 age groups with and without pre-existing medical conditions for the year 2020, and up to March 2021 should you need any clarifications please let me know.
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COVID deaths by pre-existing condition
Unfortunately, we would be unable to provide you with further disaggregation of COVID-19 deaths with pre-existing conditions. In order to fulfil this request, we would need use a high level of statistical skill and judgement in order to create a bespoke analysis or table. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Public Authorities are not obligated to create information to respond to requests. We therefore consider this to be information not held.
However, we can provide the following information:
For January to July 2020, this information is available in our Deaths involving COVID-19, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk) publication. Table 6a shows deaths involving COVID and pre-existing conditions for ages 0-44 and then 5-year age band after the age of 45.
We have published Pre-existing conditions of people who died due to COVID-19, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics which provides deaths from January 2020 to December 2020 by two age groups in the dataset in table 2. This is the latest data available.
England
| Number of PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS | January to March 2020 | April to June 2020 | July to September 2020 | October to December 2020 | January to December 2020 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Aged 1-64 years | Aged 65 and over | Aged 1-64 years | Aged 65 and over | Aged 1-64 years | Aged 65 and over | Aged 1-64 years | Aged 65 and over | Aged 1-64 years | Aged 65 and over |
| 0 | 27 | 137 | 949 | 4,620 | 59 | 213 | 406 | 2,238 | 1,441 | 7,208 |
| 1 | 67 | 336 | 1,329 | 11,712 | 70 | 433 | 588 | 5,615 | 2,054 | 18,096 |
| 2 | 44 | 366 | 1,085 | 10,219 | 47 | 447 | 507 | 5,754 | 1,683 | 16,786 |
| 3 | 46 | 298 | 655 | 6,734 | 28 | 338 | 322 | 4,123 | 1,051 | 11,493 |
| 4 | 12 | 130 | 317 | 3,147 | 15 | 163 | 134 | 1,907 | 478 | 5,347 |
| 5 or more | 11 | 91 | 160 | 1,915 | 7 | 133 | 78 | 1,093 | 256 | 3,232 |
| Proportion with no pre-existing conditions | 13.0% | 10.1% | 21.1% | 12.0% | 26.1% | 12.3% | 20.0% | 10.8% | 20.7% | 11.6% |
| Mean number of pre-existing conditions | 1.92 | 2.20 | 1.70 | 1.97 | 1.55 | 2.17 | 1.73 | 2.09 | 1.71 | 2.02 |
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| Number of PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS | January to March 2020 | April to June 2020 | July to September 2020 | October to December 2020 | January to December 2020 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Aged 1-64 years | Aged 65 and over | Aged 1-64 years | Aged 65 and over | Aged 1-64 years | Aged 65 and over | Aged 1-64 years | Aged 65 and over | Aged 1-64 years | Aged 65 and over |
| 0 | 1 | 7 | 56 | 339 | 2 | 12 | 49 | 285 | 108 | 643 |
| 1 | 3 | 23 | 59 | 653 | 4 | 28 | 50 | 617 | 116 | 1,321 |
| 2 | 0 | 15 | 51 | 470 | 2 | 27 | 38 | 477 | 91 | 989 |
| 3 | 0 | 6 | 25 | 294 | 1 | 19 | 24 | 275 | 50 | 594 |
| 4 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 119 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 143 | 21 | 274 |
| 5 or more | 1 | 4 | 5 | 73 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 72 | 12 | 153 |
| Proportion with no pre-existing conditions | 20.0% | 12.1% | 27.1% | 17.4% | 20.0% | 12.1% | 27.8% | 15.2% | 27.1% | 16.2% |
| Mean number of pre-existing conditions | 1.80 | 1.79 | 1.49 | 1.73 | 1.50 | 2.05 | 1.50 | 1.81 | 1.50 | 1.77 |
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.xls .csv2021 data will be published on 20th May 2021.
With the publication of the DR Series in July 2021, we can provide this information as a bespoke request. Information on COVID-19 deaths by pre-existing condition along with other special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate).
Such enquiries would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and should be made to: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.