COVID-19 deaths by specific comorbidity and age group

You asked​​

Please split out Covid deaths as follows:

By age as follows:

• Ages 1-12
• Ages 12-18
• Ages 18 - 30
• Ages 30 - 40
• Ages 40 - 50
• Ages 50 - 60
• Ages 60 - 70
• Ages 70 - 80
• 80+

Then by specific co morbidity:

• Heart disease (all types)
• Dementia/Alzheimer's/Parkinson's
• Stroke

• Cancer (stage 1 through 5)

• COPD & emphysema
• Asthma
• Diabetes
• Obesity
• & if they were already terminal at the point of testing positive or not.

We said

Thank you for your enquiry.

Unfortunately, we do not hold the requested analysis showing COVID-19 deaths by co-morbidity and the specified age-groups. In order to fulfil this request, we would need to create bespoke analysis. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Public Authorities are not obligated to create information in order to respond to requests. Therefore, we do not hold the information requested.

However,numbers and percentages of COVID-19 deaths by main pre-existing condition, for England and Wales, are available in our Monthly mortality analysis, England and Wales publication. The dataset containing this information can be found here. This publication contains data up to July 2021 and will be updated to include figures for August in September 2021. Earlier versions of this publication, covering March to June 2020, are available here.

We have also published a dataset covering the whole of 2020, based on finalised death registration data. This is available here.

This data is available for the broad age groups 0-64 and 65 and over. We have not broken down this analysis further by smaller age groups, as this poses a risk of disclosure, particularly for younger age groups.

You may also find the following information useful:

COVID-19 deaths by 5-year age groups 2020

Using the NOMIS webservice., you can download deaths due to COVID-19 by specific age groups for 2020.

Underlying cause of death is coded from the death certificate using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). Below are the ICD-10 codes you will require to identify deaths from each of the causes you have listed:

•       U07.1 COVID-19 Virus identified

•       U07.2 COVID-19 Virus not identified.