FOI reference: FOI-2024-2092
You asked
How many people have been diagnosed with Silicosis (more information can on it be found here) within England, Scotland and Wales and split into the below criteria:
- How many per year were diagnosed from January 1980 -- December 2023 and any information for 2024 if you have access to that already
- How many people were diagnosed at each age range, for example: 1,000 people aged 25-30, 2,000 people diagnosed aged 30-35
- The number of men vs women and other that have been diagnosed each year
- Geographically, how many people have been diagnosed in each county such as Cheshire, Derbyshire, West Yorkshire, for example
- How many people have died from Silicosis from January 1980 -- December 2023 (and any information for 2024 if you have access to that already)
- The age of the deaths from Silicosis from January 1980 -- December 2023 (and any information for 2024 if you have access to that already)
- The location of the deaths of Silicosis from January 1980 -- December 2023 (and any information for 2024 if you have access to that already)
We said
Thank you for your request.
We produce statistics on births and deaths that are registered in England and Wales. These are taken from information provided from the birth or death certificate. We unfortunately do not hold any information on the diagnosis of health conditions. NHS England, NHS Wales and NHS National Services Scotland may be better placed to help.
We are responsible for the production of mortality statistics for deaths registered in England and Wales. This is driven by information collected from death certificates 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.
Deaths due to silicosis by age and location for deaths registered between 2013 and 2022 can be extracted from our explorable dataset available on our NOMIS webservice. Data for 2023 will be available later this year in the autumn.
Please see the following instructions for this service.
- 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, mortality rates or percentage of population for example
- Select cause of death (ICD10 code search is available)
- Select format (Excel or CSV for example)
We have not produced any data on deaths due to silicosis for deaths registered between 1980 to 2012 and 2023. This requested information would therefore need to be created as a custom output. Information on deaths due to silicosis along with other special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are available to order. Please note these services are subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs in line with our charging policy.
Please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk for more information.