​FOI/2021/2653

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Please supply the following information:

How many people died annually between 2010-2021?

How many people was born between the same years annually?

Please supply the average death age annually between 2010-2021.

What was the population in the UK annually between the same time frame?

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Births and Deaths 2010-2019 in England and Wales

The following link provides information about births and deaths from 2010 to 2019 in England and Wales: Vital statistics in the UK: births, deaths and marriages. The latest data available in this publication is 2019.

  1. For more information on these death statistics see Information page.
  2. Death figures are based on deaths registered rather than deaths occurring in a calendar year. For information on the impact of registration delays, see Impact of Registration Delays on Mortality Statistics.

2020 mortality data

The following links provides information about mortality data for 2020: Registered Deaths in England and Wales. There were 607,922 deaths registered in 2020.

Births 2020

We have published provisional figures for 2020 as part of our Provisional births in England and Wales publication. Final figures will be published in September 2021.

In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, birth registration services in England and Wales were suspended in March 2020 and restarted when safe to do so in June 2020. However, the 2020 birth registration data the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has access to is currently incomplete. The NHS birth notification figures presented here are based on births that occurred between January and September 2020. For the sake of direct comparability over time, we have compared these figures with birth notification figures for previous years, not registration data from previous years. Therefore, the statistics in this release are provisional and are not directly comparable with other releases that are derived using birth registrations, including our main births releases for 2019 and earlier.

Based on birth notification data, in the first three quarters (Jan to Sept) of 2020, there were 464,437 live births in England and Wales

Average age of death 2010 - 2021

Please find our latest publication Average age at death, by sex, UK which provides mean, median and modal ages at death in the UK and its constituent countries, 2001 to 2003 and 2016 to 2018.

If this does not meet your needs, we may be able to create a custom output. Information on average age of death along with other special extracts 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.

Population statistics

The latest population estimates can be found in the following publication: Population estimates for the UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland: mid-2020.