You asked
After some searching I see that 530000 people died in the uk in 2020
Could I possibly get this broken down to the main categories? Top ten ? Or similar?
We said
Thank you for your request.
We are responsible for the provision of mortality statistics for England and Wales. National Records Scotland (NRS) and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for statistics pertaining to Scotland and Northern Ireland. They can be contacted at foi@nrscotland.gov.uk and info@nisra.gov.uk respectively.
Please see the following information we have related to your request for England and Wales.
We publish historic annual mortality totals in our deaths registered series, please see table 1 for these figures. This dataset also provides several annual breakdowns by leading cause in tables 7-9.
Provisional mortality data is available via our 2020 weekly deaths dataset. Provisional weekly totals can be found in the 'Weekly figures 2020' table. I have summed these figures for you.
- All causes England and Wales 2019 - 530,841
- All causes England and Wales 2020 (provisional) – 614,114
In the response to the pandemic we began producing monthly mortality analysis from July onwards. Tables 11a and 11b contain deaths by leading cause in 2020 and include a comparison to the five-year average.
The finalised annual data for 2020 will be available in summer 2021 following late registration delays due to inquests etc.
If you would like to discuss these statistics further, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk