FOI Ref: FOI/2021/2827
You asked
Please supply the exact figure of known deaths caused by the COVID-19 vaccines to date (10 August 2021), both worldwide and in the UK.
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. Therefore, we do not hold data for the whole of the UK or wordwide data.
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. For worldwide statistics, we would recommend Eurostat and the World Health Organisation websites. They can be contacted via the following websites: Home - Eurostat for European statistics and WHO | World Health Organization for all other statistics.
You can find the number of deaths involving COVID-19 (not restricted to first or second vaccination) in table 12 of our Monthly Mortality Analysis dataset, these include figures for deaths involving adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccination.
There are currently 4 deaths registered with the aligning ICD-10 codes for this (U12.9). The latest data available is July 2021.
Should this figure change, they will be updated in this table. This publication is due to be updated in September 2021.