You asked
Could you please issue the official death figures over the last 5 years.
We said
Thank you for your request.
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.
However, we do publish headline figures within our Vital statistics in the UK: births, deaths and marriages. The latest data available is 2019.
| Annual data: Deaths (numbers and rates: total,)¹,²,³ | | |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom and constituent countries | | |
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| Number of deaths | | | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | United Kingdom | England and Wales | England⁶ | Wales⁶ | Scotland | Northern Ireland |
| *2020 | 689,700 | 608,002 | 64,085 | 17,613 | ||
| 2019 | 604,707 | 530,841 | 496,370 | 33,183 | 58,108 | 15,758 |
| 2018 | 616,014 | 541,589 | 505,859 | 34,406 | 58,503 | 15,922 |
| 2017 | 607,172 | 533,253 | 498,882 | 33,248 | 57,883 | 16,036 |
| 2016 | 597,206 | 525,048 | 490,791 | 33,066 | 56,728 | 15,430 |
| 2015 | 602,782 | 529,655 | 495,309 | 33,198 | 57,579 | 15,438 |
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.xls .csvAll three organisations have produced blogs with year-end mortality figures for 2020. These have been summed together to provide the 2020 row of the following table. Please note, the figures for 2020 are provisional and are subject to change until we publish the Deaths Registered Series in the summer of 2021. This to allow time for late registrations to be processed as a result of coroner's inquests.
England and Wales - https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2021/01/12/counting-deaths-involving-coronavirus-a-year-in-review/
Scotland - https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//statistics/covid19/annual-deaths-excess-deaths-1855-2020.xlsx
Northern Ireland - https://www.nisra.gov.uk/publications/monthly-deaths