Number of widows created as a result of COVID-19 in the UK

You asked

​Please may you provide me with data on the number of widows created so far as a result of male Covid-19 deaths in the UK.

We said

Thank you for your enquiry.

We are responsible for the production of mortality data in England and Wales, this is driven by information collected from the death certificates at death registration. For Scotland and Northern Ireland statistics please contact National Records Scotland and NISRA respectively.

However, please see the following link to an ad hoc dataset, which will provide this information from 28 December to 24 July 2020 fro England and Wales:

Number of COVID-19 related deaths of persons who were married or in a civil partnership, England and Wales, deaths registered 28 December 2019 and 24 July 2020 - Office for National Statistics

In order to provide data from 24 July to present for England and Wales, we would need to create bespoke analysis. After the publication of the Deaths Registered Series for 2020 in July 2021, we may be able to create this information as a custom output. Information on COVID-19 deaths by marital status along with other special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and should be made to: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk once the data have been finalised.