FOI reference: FOI-2023-1642
You asked
Please can you tell me how many young people aged 15 to 17 died from flu in the last 5 years.
We said
Thank you for your request.
Our mortality data come from the information collected at death registration. All the conditions mentioned on the death certificate are coded using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). From all of these causes, an underlying cause of death is selected using ICD-10 coding rules.
The underlying cause of death is defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as:
a) the disease or injury that initiated the train of events directly leading to death, or
b) the circumstances of the accident or violence that produced the fatal injury
The ICD-10 cause code for influenza is J09 - J11.
The number of deaths of people aged 15-19 in England and Wales each year are publicly available.
For the years of interest 2019 to 2022, we hold the following information on our NOMIS webservice https://www.nomisweb.co.uk.
If you would like to use NOMIS, please find the instructions below:
Select Query data
Select Life events
Within this, select Mortality statistics - underlying cause, sex and age
Select period - 2019 to 2022
Select the geography (England and Wales, regional or by local authority)
Select Age - Aged 15-19
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)
2022 data
Deaths registered summary statistics, England and Wales - The numbers of males and females who died in 2022 aged 15-19 from influenza are available in Sheet 3.
2023 data
Provisional figures of deaths registered in 2023 are available in our 'Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional' bulletin. The dataset 'Deaths registered in England and Wales, provisional', contains figures on deaths due to Influenza or Pneumonia in Sheet 3, and deaths by sex and age group in Sheet 4. The combination of deaths by specific cause and age will not be available until the summary statistics for deaths registered in 2023 are published in 2024.
If this information on deaths of people aged 15-19 does not meet your needs, we may be able to create a custom output for deaths of people aged 15-17. Information on causes of death for specific age groups, along with other special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are available to order. These services are subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, in line with the ONS Charging Policy.
Please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk for more information.