Deaths from COVID-19 by age band

Release date:
28 January 2021

You asked

​​Please can you tell me under the freedom of information request as to what age people have died due to COVID-19 for the whole period.

Please can you send a table according to age of deaths:

  1. Age 75 plus
  2. Age from 65 to 70
  3. Age from 60 to 65
  4. Age from 55 to 60
  5. Age from 50 to 55
  6. Age from 45 to 50
  7. Age from 40 to 45
  8. Age from 35 to 40
  9. Age from 30 to 35
  10. Under 30 years of age

We said

Thank you for your enquiry.

The requested information is available via the following publication: Deaths registered weekly. This publication is updated every Tuesday.

As of week no. 53 of 2020 (week ending 1st January 2021), there were been 80,830 deaths involving COVID-19 registered in England and Wales.

Cumulative total of Weekly deaths by age band
Age BandsNumber of Deaths
<12
1-41
5-91
10-145
15-1911
20-2434
25-2970
30-34117
35-39195
40-44369
45-49694
50-541,284
55-592,186
60-643,231
65-694,596
70-747,633
75-7911,066
80-8415,374
85-8916,547
90+17,404

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.

Download this table Cumulative total of Weekly deaths by age band

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