Influenza deaths during 2016 to 2019

FOI Reference: FOI/2022/3704

You asked

Could you please tell me the number of people who died of Influenza during the following years, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019?

We said

Thank you for your request.

The Office for National Statistics 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.

ONS have published annual mortality data available by cause for the years 2013-2020, this is available as part of our explorable dataset available on our NOMIS webservice. Influenza is coded under J09-J11.

Select the geography (England and Wales, regional or by local authority).

• Select Age - All ages or 5 year age bands.
• Select Gender - Total or Male/Female.

• Select rates - All deaths, rates or percentage of population for example.

• Select cause of death (ICD10 code search is available). J09-J11.

• Select format (Excel or CSV for example).

  Please see the extracted influenza figures below for Influenza deaths

If you would like to discuss these statistics further, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk.