FOI reference: FOI/2022/4437
You asked
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, will you please advise me of the following:
The total number of people of all ages, who have died following receipt of COVID-19 vaccinations, since its rollout on 8 December 2020 up to the present date.
This will be people who have taken vaccines one, or vaccines one and two and any COVID-19 boosters.
I need clarity as to the total number of people in the UK who have died following taking a COVID-19 vaccination. (for example; 369,000 UK citizens have died in total between 8 December 2020 and 28th August 2022, following their receiving COVID-19 Vaccinations).
I am not interested in deaths after 30 days, or after 60 days, etc. I just need a single 'total deaths number'.
We said
Thank you for your request.
We hold the following analysis regarding deaths following receipt of the COVID-19 vaccination: Deaths by vaccination status, England - Office for National Statistics. This provides age-standardised mortality rates for deaths involving coronavirus (COVID-19), non-COVID-19 deaths and all deaths by vaccination status, broken down by age group.
Table 3 shows the 'ever-vaccinated' category totals for deaths involving COVID-19, deaths not involving COVID-19 and all cause deaths from 1 January 2021 to 31 May 2022.
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 (PHDA) covers England only.
This is the latest data available with an updated publication due for release in late 2022. The next publication date will be announced on our Release Calendar.
For further information please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.