FOI Reference: FOI/2022/4017
You asked
How many people in England and Wales have died from HIV/AIDS since 1980?
If you cannot supply the exact statistics, could you please provide me with some similar information.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
Our mortality data comes from the information collected at death registration. All the conditions mentioned on the death certificate are coded using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10).
From all of these causes an underlying cause of death is selected using ICD-10 coding rules.
The underlying cause of death is defined by WHO as:
a) the disease or injury that initiated the train of events directly leading to death, or b) the circumstances of the accident or violence that produced the fatal injury
The ICD-10 cause code for HIV is B20-B24.
Some of the information you have requested part of our explorable dataset available on our NOMIS webservice. NOMIS holds data from 2013-2020.
- Select the geography (England and Wales, regional or by local authority).
- Select Age – All ages or 5-year age bands.
- Select Gender – Total or Male/Female
- Select rates – All deaths, rates or percentage of population for example.
- Select cause of death (ICD10 code search is available, or input B20- B24.
- Select format (Excel or CSV for example)
| Date | A00-R99,U00-Y89 All causes, all ages | B20-B24 Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 505,688 | 206 |
| 2014 | 500,314 | 154 |
| 2015 | 528,507 | 169 |
| 2016 | 523,857 | 154 |
| 2017 | 532,130 | 160 |
| 2018 | 540,265 | 136 |
| 2019 | 529,553 | 122 |
| 2020 | 607,099 | 136 |
Download this table
.xls .csv
For historic data please use the 20th Century Mortality and 21st Century Mortality files.
20th Century will hold data from 1901 to 2000 and 21st Century holds mortality data from 2001 to 2020. When using excel use CTRL and F Button to search by ICD-10 code B20 to B20.
Finalised Mortality statistics for 2021 will be published in July 2022 as part of our Deaths Registered Series, this is to allow the inclusion of late registrations which are deaths which have been referred for Coroner Investigation and to use finalised mid-year population estimates.
We can create a custom output. However please note, as mentioned above, that you may wish to wait for our confirmed 2021 statistics in July 2022 before requesting a bespoke request, as data in its current form for 2021 and 2022 is still provisional and subject to change. 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.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) also publish annual tables as part of their analysis HIV: annual data tables.