All COVID-19 deaths broken down by age

Release date:
2 February 2021

You asked

​​Can I please have data showing the age breakdown of all deaths reported as coronavirus as of 05/01/2021?

We said

​Thank you for your enquiry.

Our Deaths Registered Weekly publication provides weekly deaths by five-year age band as of w/e 8 January 2021. This publication is updated every Tuesday.

Please refer to our Deaths registered weekly datasets:

In the 2020 dataset, please see the tab named 'Covid-19 – Weekly registrations'. This will provide a five-year age band breakdown of deaths involving COVID-19 for each week of 2020.

In the 2021 dataset, please also see the tab named 'Covid-19 – Weekly registrations'. This will provide a five-year age breakdown of deaths involving COVID-19 for each week of 2021.

The following table has been taken from our 2021 publication to provide the number of deaths registered in your week of interest.

Provisional deaths involving COVID-19 registered in Week 1 of 2021 in England and Wales: 1 January 2021 to 8 January 2021 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Total deaths in Week 1 of 20216,057
Deaths by age group​
<10
1-40
5-92
10-140
15-193
20-241
25-296
30-3413
35-3914
40-4422
45-4957
50-54112
55-59171
60-64267
65-69354
70-74583
75-79817
80-841,123
85-891,199
90+1,313

Notes

  1. Coding of deaths by cause for the latest week is not yet complete.
  2. For deaths registered from 1st January 2020, cause of death is coded to the ICD-10 classification using MUSE 5.5 software. Previous years were coded to IRIS 4.2.3, further information about the change in software is available.
  3. Deaths involving COVID-19 have been included within weekly death registrations figures due to the pandemic.
  4. Does not include deaths where age is either missing or not yet fully coded. For this reason counts of 'Persons', 'Males' and 'Females' may not sum to 'Total Deaths, all ages'.
  5. Does not include deaths of those resident outside England and Wales or those records where the place of residence is either missing or not yet fully coded. For this reason counts for "Deaths by Region of usual residence" may not sum to "Total deaths, all ages".
  6. These figures represent death registrations, there can be a delay between the date a death occurred and the date a death was registered. More information can be found in our impact of registration delays release.
  7. Figures in this table are added for the current week; data for previous weeks are not updated each week.
  8. For further breakdowns of deaths registered in 2020 please see Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales 2020 provisional dataset.

Download this table Provisional deaths involving COVID-19 registered in Week 1 of 2021 in England and Wales: 1 January 2021 to 8 January 2021 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

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Note that up-to-date counts of the total numbers of deaths involving coronavirus (COVID-19) are published by Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) on the GOV.UK website. ONS figures differ from the DHSC counts as the latter include deaths which have not yet been registered.

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