Deaths involving COVID-19 for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland for 0-40 age group

You asked

FOI/2021/2364

Please share the count of deaths involved with COVID-19 in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland since January 1st 2020 for those in the age group 0-40.

We said

Thank you for your enquiry.

We are responsible for the production of Mortality data for England and Wales, this is driven by information collected from the death certificate at death registration. National Records Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for statistics pertaining to Scotland and Northern Ireland. They can be contacted at foi@nrscotland.gov.uk and info@nisra.gov.uk respectively.

We hold headline figures using broad age groups for UK deaths in table 4 of our Deaths Registered Weekly Publication. The 0-44 age group has 1691 registered deaths. Using the same dataset, in England and Wales the number of registered deaths involving COVID-19 from 1^st January 2020 to 28^th May 2021 (latest available data) aged 0-39  is 883 registered deaths.

Unfortunately, we would be unable to provide you with Deaths involving COVID-19 in the UK by the specific age group 0-40. We would to create a new bespoke analysis to fulfil this. 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.

If you require any further information, please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk