You asked
FOI/2021/2352
I would like general and complete excess deaths in UK since year 2000.
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.
However, we can provide Headline UK death figures as part of our Vital statistics in the UK: births, deaths and marriages. which will provide UK deaths from 1887.
Excess deaths for 2020 is available is in our Excess deaths in England and Wales, 2020: Final
In this analysis, we have defined "excess" deaths as the difference between the number of deaths in the given year (2020) and the mean average number of deaths in the preceding five year (2015-2019). A five-year average of death counts is the most commonly used approach to measure excess mortality as it is easily understood and accessible for a wide audience. We have used five years rather than a longer comparison period, because longer time periods would see larger changes to the population (in terms of both structure and size) and advances to healthcare.
For 2019 to 2000 we may be able to create a custom output. Information on excess deaths, 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.