You asked
Can I have data/ statistics of each month of 2020.
Suicide deaths per 100000 compared to Covid-19 deaths per 100000.
We said
Thank you for your request.
Table 3 of the December spreadsheet of the following dataset, Monthly Mortality Analysis, provides deaths both 'due to' and 'involving' COVID-19 per 100,000 of the population each month from March to December 2020 for England and Wales.
However, we would be unable to provide suicides figures that would be directly comparable with these figures.
Suspected suicides require an inquest, where the death is investigated by a coroner. The amount of time it takes to hold an inquest causes a delay between the date of death and the date of death registration, referred to as a registration delay. Registration delays for deaths caused by suicide tend to be 5 to 6 months on average. More information about the impact of registration delays is available here.
Therefore, the most up-to-date analysis we have is our Quarterly provisional suicides data for England, with the most recent update including deaths that were registered from January to September of 2020. This is for deaths registered in 2020 and due to the registration delay described above, most of these deaths would have occurred in 2019. The next update of this release is due on 30 April 2021.
The number of suicides for England and Wales for 1981 to 2019 are available here: Suicides in England and Wales: 2019 registrations. This publication is provisionally scheduled to be updated to include 2020 data in September 2021. When a publication date is finalised it will be announced via our release calendar.