Deaths due to myocardial infarction by age 2022 to 2025

FOI reference: FOI-2026-3809

You asked:

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I request the following recorded information. This is a refinement of a prior request (your ref: FOI/2022/3891), which supplied data for 2019 to January 2022 only.

Request 1:

The number of deaths in England and Wales where the underlying cause was acute myocardial infarction or subsequent/complicating myocardial infarction (ICD-10 codes I21, I22 and I23), by five-year age band and sex, for each full calendar year 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.

To assist you in locating this information and minimising effort, I specify:

-   Basis: 

-   Deaths registered in each calendar year. 

-   If final data for any requested year is unavailable, provide the latest available provisional figures and state the cut-off date.

-   Geography:

    -   England and Wales combined, including deaths of non-residents (consistent with FOI/2022/3891)

-   Format:

    -   CSV or machine-readable table,

    -   Presented identically to the table supplied under FOI/2022/3891 (rows = five-year age bands from 1 - 4 through 85+, columns = calendar year)

Request 2:

For the same years, codes and geographies, the total number of deaths from all causes, by the same five-year age bands, so that the cardiac figures can be contextualised as a proportion of total deaths. (This avoids any need for you to calculate rates, which I understand falls outside FOI scope; raw counts only).

We said

Thank you for your request. 

Please see the associated download providing the number of deaths due to myocardial infarction or subsequent/complicating myocardial infarction along with the number of deaths from all causes. Figures are presented by sex and 5-year age group from 1 year to 85 years plus. Deaths registered in each year from 2022 to 2025, England and Wales, including non-residents. 

For further information please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk