You asked
Please provide:
The number of deaths for any reason within the UK for both male and females of any age. The number of burials and cremations within the UK for the same reasons.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
We are responsible for the provision of mortality statistics for England and Wales. National Records Scotland (NRS) and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for statistics pertaining to Scotland and Northern Ireland. Therefore, we do not hold the requested data for the whole of the UK. Should you wish to obtain this data from NRS and NISRA, they can be contacted at foi@nrscotland.gov.uk and info@nisra.gov.uk respectively.
For England and Wales, we hold mortality analysis disaggregated by sex. This is available in our Deaths Registered Series in England and Wales. Data is available from 2012 -- 2019. This information is also available to download from our NOMIS Webservice.
For earlier data, please use our 21st Century and 20th Century Mortality publications.
2020 data:
For 2020 data, using the Excess deaths registered in 2020, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk) publication, there were 607,922 deaths in England and Wales; 308,069 were male and 299,853 were female.
Scotland and Ireland have published the following year end data:
- Scotland - https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//statistics/covid19/annual-deaths-excess-deaths-1855-2020.xlsx
- Northern Ireland - https://www.nisra.gov.uk/publications/monthly-deaths
Burials and Cremations:
Unfortunately, we do not hold information regarding burials or cremations.
Cremation statistics are available online from the cremation society of Great Britain: https://www.cremation.org.uk/statistics