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Please provide the total of all deaths for England, Wales, Scotland and N. Ireland for 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.
According to the following publication, Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional, using the latest data available for w/e 1 January 2021 (week 53 of 2020), there have been 614,114 deaths registered in England and Wales.
576,624 of these deaths were registered in England and 37,790 of these were registered in Wales.
Whilst the data has not yet been finalised for 2020, all three Statistical authorities have published blogs with year-end figures.
England and Wales – https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2021/01/12/counting-deaths-involving-coronavirus-a-year-in-review/
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