Dataset(s): Unexpected deaths in infancy, England and Wales

Annual data on unexpected deaths (certified by a coroner) and infant deaths by selected causes in England and Wales.

Contact:
Population Health Monitoring Group

Release date:
1 October 2026

Next release:
To be announced

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Provides files to download data as it existed for this dataset on previous dates.

Statistics are most often revised for 1 of 2 reasons:

  1. For certain statistics initial estimates are released with the expectation that these may be revised and updated as further data becomes available.
  2. Revisions may also be made when methods or systems are changed.

These types of planned revisions should not be confused with errors in released statistics, which are genuine mistakes. Such mistakes occur rarely and, when they do happen, corrections are made in a timely manner, announced and clearly explained to users in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (Principle 2, Practice 7).

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Correction See correction
We have corrected the following errors in our 2022 and 2023 workbooks. In Table 5, for data years 2021 onwards, three columns corresponding to final underlying causes of death ("Other accidental threats to breathing", ICD-10 codes W75 to W84) were mislabelled. This was caused by an error in the code used to create the table. These values are now correct. We apologise for these errors.
28 September 2026 14:42