Deaths within 28 days of having any of the COVID-19 vaccines in the UK

Dyddiad y datganiad:
7 January 2022

FOI Ref: ​FOI/2021/3324

You asked

Please supply how many people in the United Kingdom have died within 28 days of having any of the COVID-19 vaccines.

We said

Thank you for your enquiry regarding deaths registered within 28 days of receipt of the COVID-19 vaccination in the UK.

We are responsible for the provision of mortality statistics for England and Wales. National Records Scotland (NRS) and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for statistics pertaining to Scotland and Northern Ireland. Therefore, we do not hold the requested data for the whole of the UK. Should you wish to obtain this data from NRS and NISRA, they can be contacted at foi@nrscotland.gov.uk and info@nisra.gov.uk respectively.

All cause deaths and COVID-19 deaths by vaccination status

We hold the following analysis Deaths involving COVID-19 by vaccination status, England which is an analysis of deaths involving COVID-19 and all cause deaths by vaccination status that occurred between 1 January 2021 and 31 October 2021 in England.

Please note, these deaths are not attributed to the COVID-19 vaccination. This publication shows deaths by vaccination status. We have not analysed deaths within 28 days of the receipt of the vaccination, we have used 21 days after vaccination as this is when the vaccine starts to be effective.

Table 8: Whole period age-standardised mortality rates by vaccination status, per 100,000 person-years, England, deaths occurring between 1 January 2021 and 31 October 2021¹,²,³,⁴,⁵
Non-COVID-19 deaths
Number of deaths
(All cause)		Population-yearsAge-standardised
mortality rate per
100,000 person-years
Unvaccinated61,68513,192,8471501.8
Received only
the first dose,
less than 21
days ago		12,8811,810,331609.3
Received only
the first dose,
at least 21
days ago		64,5514,548,4061115.7
Received the
second dose,
less than 21
days ago		108031,728,465464.3
Received the
second dose,
at least 21
days ago		16705811,383,429816.9
Ever vaccinated255,29319,470,631822.8

Notes

  1. Age-standardised mortality rates per 100,000 person-years, standardised to the 2013 European Standard Population using five-year age groups from those aged 10 years and over. "Person-years" take into account both the number of people and the amount of time spent in each vaccination status. For more information, see our methodology article: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/methodologies/weeklycovid19agestandardisedmortalityratesbyvaccinationstatusenglandmethodology
  2. Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures based on deaths that occurred between 1 January and 31 October 2021 and were registered by 10 November 2021. These figures represent death occurrences, there can be a delay between the date a death occurred and the date a death was registered. More information can be found in our impact of registration delays:  https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/impactofregistrationdelaysonmortalitystatisticsinenglandandwales/latest release.
  3. ASMRs are calculated using the Public Health Data Asset, a linked dataset of people resident in England, who could be linked to the 2011 Census and GP Patient Register. This dataset covers approximately 79% of the population in England aged 10+.
  4. Deaths were defined using the International Classification of Diseases, tenth revision (ICD-10). Deaths involving the coronavirus (COVID-19) are defined as those with an underlying cause, or any mention of, ICD-10 codes U07.1 (COVID-19 virus identified) or U07.2 (COVID-19, virus not identified). Please note, this differs from the definition used in the majority of mortality outputs.
  5. While differences in the ages of people in the vaccination status groups are accounted for, other differences, such as health, ethnicity or level of deprivation, may remain, which can affect the mortality rates.

Download this table Table 8: Whole period age-standardised mortality rates by vaccination status, per 100,000 person-years, England, deaths occurring between 1 January 2021 and 31 October 2021¹,²,³,⁴,⁵

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The data are for England only, as vaccinations data for Wales is not yet available to be linked to the mortality dataset and the Public Health Data Asset covers England only. Therefore, we consider data for Wales as information not held.  

A further release is provisionally scheduled for February 2022, final date of publication will be announced on Release Calendar.

If this does not meet your needs, we can create a custom output. Information on deaths within 28 days of receipt of the COVID-19 vaccination, 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.

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