Annual totals for 2019 and 2020 including date range

You asked

Please can you share the total number of deaths in the UK in 2019 and the total number of deaths in the UK in 2020 (please give exact date latest figure relates to).

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 UK figures within our Vital statistics in the UK: births, deaths and marriages. The latest data that we hold for annual totals in the UK as a whole is for 2019.

Mortality data has not yet been finalised for 2020. However, all three Statistical authorities have published blogs with year-end figures from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020.

England and Wales: https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2021/01/12/counting-deaths-involving-coronavirus-a-year-in-review/. Please scroll down to the 'Total deaths' heading in this blog to view the provisional total number of deaths in England and Wales in 2020.

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