FOI reference: FOI-2023-1600
You asked
Please provide deaths where amyloidosis is recorded on a death certificate as cause of death November 2013 to November 2023 on a year by year basis.
We said
Thank you for your request.
All of our mortality data comes from the information collected at death registration. All of the conditions mentioned on the death certificate are coded using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). From all of these causes an underlying cause of death is selected using ICD-10 coding rules. The underlying cause of death is defined by WHO as:
a) the disease or injury that initiated the train of events directly leading to death, or
b) the circumstances of the accident or violence that produced the fatal injury
The number of deaths registered due to the underlying cause Amyloidosis (ICD E85) in England and Wales are as follows:
- 1 November 2013 – 31 October 2014: 362
- 1 November 2014 – 31 October 2015: 387
- 1 November 2015 – 31 October 2016: 391
- 1 November 2016 – 31 October 2017: 496
- 1 November 2017 – 31 October 2018: 528
- 1 November 2018 – 31 October 2019: 506
- 1 November 2019 – 31 October 2020: 545
- 1 November 2020 – 31 October 2021: 596
- 1 November 2021 – 31 October 2022: 683
- 1 November 2022 – 31 October 2023: 726
Please note, 2023 figures are provisional and are subject to change due to registration delays.
Please see our Impact of Registration delays release for further information.