"Figure 2: Over 10% of deaths registered within 2020 had a registration delay of over two weeks","" "Percentage of deaths registered in over two weeks by registration delay, England and Wales, deaths registered 2001 to 2020","" "","" "Notes","1. Figures include deaths of non-residents. 2. For definitions of time periods, see [Data sources and quality](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/impactofregistrationdelaysonmortalitystatisticsinenglandandwales/2020#data-sources-and-quality). 3. Registrations that do not provide enough information to calculate the delay are excluded. " "Unit","Percentage of deaths registered" "","" "Year","Over one year","Six months to one year","Three to six months","One to three months","Three weeks to one month","Two to three weeks" "2001","0.2","0.9","1.7","1.5","0.3","0.4" "2002","0.2","0.9","1.6","1.5","0.3","0.4" "2003","0.3","1.1","1.6","1.4","0.3","0.5" "2004","0.3","1.3","1.9","1.4","0.3","0.5" "2005","0.4","1.3","1.9","1.4","0.3","0.5" "2006","0.4","1.4","2.1","1.4","0.3","0.5" "2007","0.5","1.5","2.0","1.3","0.3","0.5" "2008","0.6","1.7","2.1","1.2","0.3","0.5" "2009","0.7","1.7","2.2","1.4","0.3","0.7" "2010","0.7","1.7","2.1","1.4","0.3","0.7" "2011","0.7","1.8","2.2","1.4","0.4","0.9" "2012","0.6","1.6","2.1","1.4","0.4","1.0" "2013","0.8","1.8","2.2","1.6","0.4","1.0" "2014","0.9","1.5","2.5","2.2","0.5","1.1" "2015","0.5","1.4","2.7","2.5","0.7","1.9" "2016","0.5","1.5","2.8","2.7","0.9","2.4" "2017","0.5","1.6","2.8","2.5","1.0","2.6" "2018","0.7","1.7","2.9","2.5","1.0","2.9" "2019","0.8","1.9","2.8","2.4","0.9","2.6" "2020","0.7","1.7","2.3","2.4","1.1","2.7"