You asked

I would like the number of deaths for each of these categories:

  • Ischaemic heart disease;
  • cerebrovascular disease and specifically for cerebrovascular accidents / strokes;
  • other circulatory diseases;
  • heart failure
  • sudden adult death syndrome

Total by month, for the following months

Jan, Feb, March, April, December 2015
Jan, Feb, March, April, December 2016
Jan, Feb, March, April, December 2017
Jan, Feb, March, April, December 2018
Jan, Feb, March, April, December 2019
Jan, Feb, March, April, December 2020
Jan, Feb, March, April 2021

For 10 year age categories from 15yrs of age up to 75 yrs.

Please included all deaths whether or not COVID was mentioned on the death certificate and indicate the numbers that were labelled as COVID deaths.

We said

Thank you for your request.

We do not hold the mortality analysis specific to your request. To fulfil this request, we would need to create a bespoke analysis or table. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Public Authorities are not obligated to create information in order to respond to requests. We therefore consider this to be information not held.

Annual mortality data by cause from 2013-2019 is available as part of our explorable dataset available on our NOMIS webservice

  • Select the geography (England and Wales, regional or by local authority)
  • Select Age - All ages or 5 year age bands
  • Select Gender - Total or Male/Female
  • Select rates - All deaths, rates or percentage of population for example
  • Select cause of death (ICD10 code search is available)
  • Select format (Excel or CSV for example)  

Data for 2020 and 2021 has not yet been finalised. Annual mortality data is expected to be published in summer 2021.

If this does not meet your needs, we may be able to create a custom output for you. Special extracts and tabulations of mortality data up to 2019 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.