Rankings of mortality as of the end of June 2021

Dyddiad y datganiad:
30 July 2021

FOI/2021/2648

Please supply the rankings of mortality as of the end of June 2021 and where COVID-19 ranks within that.

Thank you for your enquiry.

Within the Monthly mortality analysis we report leading causes of death in table 11a and 11b.

For June 2021, COVID-19 was the 26^th leading cause of death in England with 344 registered deaths.

Year to date, January to June 2021 COVID-19 is the number 1 leading cause of death with 48,811 registered deaths.

Table 11a: Age-standardised mortality rate for selected leading causes of deaths, per 100,000 people, England, year-to-date.
Cause	Rank in year to date	(January to June 2021)
		Number of deaths
Top ten leading causes of death in year-to-date 2021
COVID-19	1st	48,811
Dementia and Alzheimer's disease	2nd	26,966
Ischaemic heart diseases	3rd	26,013
Cerebrovascular diseases	4th	13,352
Malignant neoplasm of trachea, bronchus and lung	5th	12,776
Chronic lower respiratory diseases	6th	10,731
Symptoms, signs and ill-defined conditions	7th	7,146
Influenza and Pneumonia	8th	6,912
Malignant neoplasm of colon, sigmoid, rectum and anus	9th	6,857
Malignant neoplasms, stated or presumed to be primary of lymphoid, haematopoietic and related tissue	10th	5268

For June 2021, COVID-19 was not ranked as there were only 2 deaths recorded in Wales.

Year to date, January to June 2021 COVID-19 is the number 1 leading cause of death with 2,526 registered deaths.

Cause	Rank in year to date	(January to June 2021)
		Number of deaths
Top ten leading causes of death in year to date 2021
COVID-19	1st	2,526
Ischaemic heart diseases	2nd	2,003
Dementia and Alzheimer's disease	3rd	1,664
Cerebrovascular diseases	4th	916
Malignant neoplasm of trachea, bronchus and lung	5th	832
Chronic lower respiratory diseases	6th	805
Influenza and Pneumonia	7th	500
Malignant neoplasm of colon, sigmoid, rectum and anus	8th	474
Symptoms, signs and ill-defined conditions	9th	399
Malignant neoplasms, stated or presumed to be primary of lymphoid, haematopoietic and related tissue	10th	320

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