Deaths of under 80s and under 60s in the UK, 2000 to 2020

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11 March 2021

You asked

Please could you provide the following data;

  • Total annual number of United Kingdom wide (England, Wales & Scotland) deaths for those aged 80 and below for the years 2000 to 2020.
  • Total annual number of United Kingdom wide (England, Wales & Scotland) deaths for those aged 60 and below for the years 2000 to 2020.

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Thank you for your request.

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.

However, our NOMIS webservice provides data for 2013 to 2019 by age for England and Wales. Please see the following extracts from this service

Total number of deaths in 2013 to 2019 by age-band for under 60s:

Age2013201420152016201720182019
Aged under 12,7672,6892,7212,7112,7072,5712,554
Aged 1 to 4497469460443392379378
Aged 5 to 9273292274240279270251
Aged 10 to 14295292295285270310309
Aged 15 to 19771829832759767831720
Aged 20 to 241,2831,3721,3501,3941,2111,3591,368
Aged 25 to 291,7151,7541,7251,8231,6961,8231,831
Aged 30 to 342,3552,3842,3712,5412,3462,5342,526
Aged 35 to 393,2603,2153,3263,2893,4713,6073,570
Aged 40 to 445,4775,4075,2435,2615,0205,0204,760
Aged 45 to 498,3438,3948,4058,5158,4688,7058,242
Aged 50 to 5411,75911,93212,45812,68512,74212,96412,906
Aged 55 to 5916,28616,19016,69317,42817,28918,18018,153
Total under 60s55,08155,21956,15357,37456,65858,55357,568

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Total number of deaths in 2013 to 2019 by age-band for under 80s:

Age2013201420152016201720182019
Aged under 12,7672,6892,7212,7112,7072,5712,554
Aged 1 to 4497469460443392379378
Aged 5 to 9273292274240279270251
Aged 10 to 14295292295285270310309
Aged 15 to 19771829832759767831720
Aged 20 to 241,2831,3721,3501,3941,2111,3591,368
Aged 25 to 291,7151,7541,7251,8231,6961,8231,831
Aged 30 to 342,3552,3842,3712,5412,3462,5342,526
Aged 35 to 393,2603,2153,3263,2893,4713,6073,570
Aged 40 to 445,4775,4075,2435,2615,0205,0204,760
Aged 45 to 498,3438,3948,4058,5158,4688,7058,242
Aged 50 to 5411,75911,93212,45812,68512,74212,96412,906
Aged 55 to 5916,28616,19016,69317,42817,28918,18018,153
Aged 60 to 6424,53923,96624,09324,14924,04424,30524,226
Aged 65 to 6936,73536,83937,97838,56536,56335,84834,315
Total under 80s116,355116,024118,224120,088117,265118,706116,109

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The following publication, Deaths Registered series, provides mortality statistics for England and Wales with age disaggregation for 2006-2019.

The following publications provide deaths by age, sex, and ICD-10 code:

21st Century mortality files: 2001 to 2005

20th Century Mortality Files: 2000

If this does not meet your needs, we may be able to create a custom output. Information on deaths by specific age group for 2000 - 2019, along with other special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate).

Such enquiries would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and should be made to: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.

2020 deaths

All cause mortality is published weekly in 5-year age bands within the following publication: Deaths Registered Weekly in England and Wales.

As of 1 January 2021, 63,602 deaths were in the <1 to 59 age band and 269,112 deaths were in the <1 to 79 age band.

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