COVID-19, influenza and all cause deaths 2010 to 2021

FOI Ref: FOI/2021/3358​

You asked

From 2010 to the present day including the year 2021, please supply the year on year data for all causes mortality in the UK, mortality with Covid-19 for the same date range and mortality with influenza in the same date range per year.

We said

Thank you for your enquiry.

We are responsible for the provision of mortality statistics for England and Wales. 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.

We hold annual mortality rates in an ad hoc dataset that was published on 12 January 2021: Annual deaths and mortality rates, 1938 to 2020 (provisional). This dataset provides annual number of deaths and crude mortality rates (per 100,000 population) from 2010-2020 in England and Wales:

ONS have published mortality statistics for England and Wales in the 'Weekly figures 2021' tab of our weekly deaths dataset. There were 577,422 all cause deaths registered up to week 51 of 2021.

Influenza mortality

ONS have produced a back series as part of our 21st century mortality, which contains all-cause mortality data by ICD code, age and sex, 2001-2020, England and Wales.

The ICD codes used to code Influenza are J09-J11. You can filter on these codes in column A.

Alternatively, this information is also available as part of our explorable dataset available on our NOMIS webservice between 2013-2020.

• 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, 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 extracted these figures for you from NOMIS. Please see the attached Influenza 2013 to 2020 spreadsheet (280.5 kB xlsx).

We do not hold analysis for influenza figures in 2021. We can produce this for you as a bespoke request. 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.

COVID-19

Deaths where COVID-19 was the underlying cause or a contributing factor

For deaths involving COVID-19, please see row 9 of the 'Covid-19 – weekly registrations' tab in our weekly deaths dataset. These figures are for deaths where COVID-19 was recorded as the underlying cause or mentioned as a contributing factor.

• 2020 – 80,830
• 2021 (up to December 24th) – 75,512

Deaths where COVID-19 was the underlying cause

Please see this data extract which historically was included in figure 2 our Deaths registered weekly bulletin. Column G of this dataset show deaths where COVID-19 was listed as the underlying cause of death. This data was available up until week 26 of 2021, following this, it was then included as part of the weekly deaths dataset. You can view these figures for 2021 in row 20 of the 'weekly figures by cause' tab.

• 2020 – 73,444
• 2021(up to December 3rd) – 65,619

ONS began collating statistics for COVID-19 in 2020, we do not hold COVID statistics prior to this.

If you require further assistance with this enquiry, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk.