FOI reference: FOI-2025-3177
You asked
Please can you tell me how many people died in UK hospitals in 2024 and the % this equates to?
We said
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.
We publish annual death figures in the Deaths registered in England and Wales data series with data up to 2024. Table 6 provides numbers and percentage of deaths by region and Integrated Care Board (ICB), which is broken down by sex‚ and place of occurrence, including NHS and non-NHS hospital.
For further information please contact: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.