Deaths in England 2019 to 2022

FOI Ref: FOI/2022/4439

You asked

Please could you supply the national figures for England for the all causes of death figures for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 sorted by age group including still births.

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Thank you for your enquiry.

All cause mortality in England 2019, 2020 and 2021

The information you have requested part of our explorable dataset available on our NOMIS webservice. Please follow the below instructions in order to retrieve the data you require.

• Select the geography (England and Wales, regional or by local authority).
• Select Age - All ages or 5-year age bands.  
• Select Gender - Total or Male/Female  
• Select rates - All deaths, rates or percentage of population for example.  
• Select cause of death (ICD10 code search is available).  
• Select format (Excel or CSV for example)

We have also attached the dataset to this page.

Deaths registered in England in 2022

Provisional all cause deaths in England are published monthly in our Monthly Mortality Analysis. This data is subject to change to allow the inclusion of late registrations which are deaths that have been referred for Coroner investigation.

Stillbirths registered in England 2019-2021

A stillbirth is a baby born after 24 or more weeks completed gestation and which did not, at any time, breathe or show signs of life. On 1 October 1992 the Still-Birth (Definition) Act 1992 came into force, altering the definition of a stillbirth to 24 or more weeks completed gestation, instead of 28 or more weeks completed gestation. More information can be found in our Births QMI

Stillbirths are registered as part of the births cohort and therefore are held within our Births in England and Wales: summary tables publication

Using table 3 of the above data set there were registered:

• 2,346 stillbirths in 2019
• 2,231 stillbirths in 2020
• 2,577 stillbirths in 2021

Please note that final figures for January to September 2022 will not be available until summer 2023. Provisional data would be based on birth notifications and as such would not be directly comparable with other birth statistics derived using birth registrations.

Users can request bespoke analysis using birth notifications data. The analysis would be subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs under the ONS Charging policy where appropriate. If you would like to discuss further or obtain a quote for this work, which is out with the Freedom of Information Act please contact the HALE Customer Services team on Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.