COVID-19 deaths by age, ethnicity, region, and underlying health condition

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15 December 2020

You asked

Please publish a breakdown of Covid deaths by age, race, region and underlying health conditions.

The underlying health condition is the factor I am specifically interested in.

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Thank you for your enquiry.

Deaths by age, sex, and underlying health condition:

COVID-19 deaths by age, sex and underlying health condition can be found in the following dataset: Deaths involving COVID-19, England and Wales. The latest data available is to June 2020, as this publication has been now been paused.

Please see the following table, which is Table 6b from this dataset. This shows the number of deaths involving COVID-19 by main pre-existing condition, sex and age, England, deaths occurring between March and June 2020.

SexAgeDiabetes
Number of deaths		Hypertensive diseases
Number of deaths
Persons0-44297
Persons45-492710
Persons50-545241
Persons55-598193
Persons60-64103108
Persons65-6916475
Persons70-74233114
Persons75-79249120
Persons80-84180157
Persons85-8910293
Persons90+53124

Notes

  1. Figures exclude deaths of non-residents
  2. Figures are provisional
  3. Based on deaths involving COVID-19 (ICD-10 codes U07.1 and U07.2) rather than deaths where COVID-19 was the underlying cause of death
  4. Deaths occurring between March and June 2020 rather than deaths registered between March and June 2020
  5. Main pre-existing causes are grouped using the ONS Leading Causes of Deaths list https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/methodologies/userguidetomortalitystatistics/leadingcausesofdeathinenglandandwalesrevised2016 and International Classification of Disease version 10 blocks of causes
  6. Including deaths registered up until 4 July 2020
  7. Based on boundaries as of May 2020
  8. Requested Pre-conditions supplied

Download this table

.xls .csv

COVID-19 deaths by region:

Please also see the following publication: Death registrations and occurrences by local authority and health board. This provides COVID-19 deaths and death totals from all causes by local authority level on a weekly basis. This publication is updated every Tuesday.

COVID-19 deaths and ethnicity:

Please see the following two publications, which provide estimates of mortality involving the coronavirus (COVID-19) by ethnic group and investigation of the explanatory power of hospital-based comorbidity on ethnic differences, building on previous models published by the Office for National Statistics:

Updating ethnic contrasts in deaths involving the coronavirus (COVID-19), England and Wales: deaths occurring 2 March to 28 July 2020

Coronavirus (COVID-19) related deaths by ethnic group, England and Wales: 2 March to 10 April 2020

The following publication may also be of interest: Monthly mortality analysis, England and Wales. This provides provisional death registration data for England and Wales, broken down by sex, age and country. This includes deaths due to COVID-19 and leading causes of death.

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