Number of deaths from 2015 to 2020 by cause

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​​I would like to request confirmation of number of deaths in the UK for the last 5years 2015 to 31st Dec 2020 and the reason for these deaths.

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​Thank you for your request.

Please see the following link to a previous response, providing UK death totals from 2013 to 2020: https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/annualukdeathtotals2013to2020

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.

Our Deaths registered series will provide registered deaths by age, sex, selected underlying causes of death and the leading causes of death. This contains death rates and death registrations by area of residence and single year of age. Data is available from 2012-2019 for England and Wales. Data for 2020 in England and Wales will be available in the Summer of 2021, once the data have been finalised.

Using our NOMIS Webservice, you can create a full ICD-10 code breakdown of all deaths for 2013-2019.

The accompanying download, named 'Deaths in England and Wales by broad cause chapter 2015-2019' provides an extract from NOMIS showing registered deaths in England and Wales by broad cause chapter for 2015-2019.

NOMIS Footnote

To protect the confidentiality of individuals, small counts output for areas below region level are rounded; counts of 0, 1, and 2 are rounded to 0, while counts of 3, 4, and 5 are rounded to 5.

2020 data for England and Wales will be available on NOMIS once the data have been finalised in the Summer of 2021.