FOI Ref: FOI/2022/4107

You asked


Please supply weekly deaths by date of occurrence for England since Jan 2010 broken down by the following age brackets:

  • <1

  • 1 - 14

  • Then 5-year ranges, e.g. 15-19, 20-24, etc. until 90+

We said


Thank you for your enquiry.

We hold the following analysis:

Daily deaths occurrences, England and Wales, 1981 and 2020 - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk) provides daily deaths by under 65's and then five year age groups.

Daily deaths, England and Wales, 2015 to 2018 occurrences - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk) which provides the number of death occurrences from all causes by day, month and year of occurrence, by 5 year age group, England and Wales, 2015 to 2018.

Daily death occurrences, England, regions of England and Wales: 1970 to 2014 - Office for National Statistics provides daily deaths for England and Wales combined, 1970 to 2014 occurrences, and daily deaths for regions of England and Wales, 1981 to 2014 occurrences with no age disaggregation.

Deaths by date of occurrence, England and Wales, 1959 to 2016 - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk) provides number of deaths by month of occurrence for England and Wales occurring in 1959 to 1969, and the number of deaths by month and day of occurrence for England and Wales occurring in 1970 to 2016.

If this does not meet your user needs, we can create a custom output. Special extracts and tabulations of mortality data 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 the HALE Customer Services Team on Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.