COVID-19 deaths by month of death registration for Wales

You asked

FOI/2021/2337

I would like number of deaths involving COVID-19 by month of death registration and age group from March 2020 to May 2021 for usual residents of Wales.

We said

Thank you for your request.

ONS do not hold analysis for deaths involving COVID-19 in Wales broken down by both month and age group. To fulfil this request, we would need to create a bespoke analysis or table. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Public Authorities are not obligated to create information in order to respond to requests. We therefore consider this to be information not held.

Under the Freedom of Information act, we can provide you with the following:

Provisional monthly death registration data for England and Wales, broken down by sex, age and country are available in this monthly publication: Monthly mortality analysis, England and Wales. This publication contains data from July 2020 onwards and includes deaths due to COVID-19 and leading causes of death. Leading causes in Wales is also available on table 11b and includes figures for the five-year average.

We have also been publishing a breakdown of COVID-19 deaths by age group in our weekly deaths bulletin with statistics published up to week ending 28^th May 2021. Please download the 'Covid-19 -- Weekly registrations' table in the 2020 and 2021 datasets for weekly deaths involving COVID-19 by age. We also provide weekly deaths for Wales which can be found on row 86.

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