Excess deaths in England, Scotland and Wales for the year 2020

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28 May 2021

You asked

​Please give me the rates for Excess deaths (per million) in England, Scotland, Wales for 2020.

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.

Excess deaths registered in 2020, England and Wales is our latest publication available.

Table 1: Number of deaths registered in 2020 and the five-year average (2015-2019) in English regions and Wales1,2,3
Area of usual
residence		Deaths
registered
in 2020		Deaths
registered in
2015-2019
(five-year average)		Excess deathsPercentage
difference
England & Wales
(including non-residents)		607,922532,07775,84514.3%

Download this table Table 1: Number of deaths registered in 2020 and the five-year average (2015-2019) in English regions and Wales1,2,3

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Excess death rates are available in this publication

Total and excess deaths as a percentage of the population, 2010 to 2020 - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

For further information please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.

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