Excess deaths in UK for the year 2020

Dyddiad y datganiad:
25 May 2021

You asked

FOI/2021/2242

​Please send me the 'total' excess deaths for the U.K. in 2020, and broken down into England, Wales, Scotland and NI.

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. 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.

Excess deaths registered in 2020, England and Wales is our latest publication available.

Table 1: Number of deaths registered in 2020 and the five-year average (2015-2019) in English regions and Wales¹²³
Area of usual
residence		Deaths registered
in 2020		Deaths registered
in 2015-2019
(five-year average)		Excess deathsPercentage
difference
England & Wales
(including
non-residents)		607,922532,07775,84514.3%

Download this table Table 1: Number of deaths registered in 2020 and the five-year average (2015-2019) in English regions and Wales¹²³

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For further information please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.

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