FOI Ref: FOI/2022/3533
You asked
Please supply a table of the yearly death rates per year in the UK since 1990 up until the end of December 2021.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
1990 to 2020 UK rates
We hold the following headline analysis of deaths registered in the UK in the following publication: Vital statistics in the UK: births, deaths and marriages - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk).
Using the Deaths tab, Crude Death Rate is available from 1971 to 2020 for the UK and constituent countries. Age Standardised Mortality Rate (ASMR) is available from 1981 to 2020.
2021 data
Rates for England and Wales 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.
Monthly ASMR is available for 2021 as part of our Monthly Mortality Analysis publication. This is based on provisional data and is subject to change.
UK data for 2021 will not be published until December 2022 as we receive UK mortality data from other statistical agencies.
Northern Ireland National Records Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for statistics pertaining to Scotland and Northern Ireland. To request data for 2021 please contact foi@nrscotland.gov.uk and info@nisra.gov.uk respectively.