Excess deaths in England for 2021

Release date:
8 February 2022

FOI Ref: FOI/2022/3564​

You asked

Please supply data summarising excess deaths in England for 2021, in its entirety (no overlaps of 2020).

We said

Thank you for your enquiry.

We hold following analysis as part of our Monthly Mortality Analysis publication:

Provisional number of deaths registered in 2021 and the five-year average (2015-2019), by sex and age group, deaths registered in England
20212015 to 2019ExcessPercentage difference
All ages548,815507,11541,7008.20%

Download this table Provisional number of deaths registered in 2021 and the five-year average (2015-2019), by sex and age group, deaths registered in England

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Footnotes:
  1. These are provisional estimates taken from the recent ONS publication Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, 25 January 2022.  Final figures are expected to be published in May 2022.
  2. 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.
  3. Non-residents are excluded.
  4. Figures are based on geographical boundaries as of February 2021

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