About this dataset
Weekly death figures provide provisional counts of the number of deaths registered in England and Wales in the latest weeks for which data are available.
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Main points from latest release
The provisional number of deaths registered in England and Wales in the week ending 8 September 2017 (week 36) was 9,497; this represents an increase of 1,348 deaths registered in comparison with the previous week (week 35).
The average number of deaths for the corresponding week over the previous 5 years was 8,940.
The increase in the number of deaths registered in the week ending 8 September 2017 is likely to be due to the closure of register offices over the August Bank Holiday in the previous week. This pattern is similar to previous years.
Moveable public holidays, when register offices are closed, affect the number of registrations made in the published weeks and in the corresponding weeks in previous years.
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The table includes number of deaths for which the underlying cause was coded to respiratory diseases as defined in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems Tenth Revision (ICD-10), as well as age group, sex and by area of usual residence.
For information on data quality, legislation and procedures relating to mortality statistics, please see our User guide to mortality statistics.
There is an interactive mapping tool which enables trends in mortality to be analysed at the local level.
For mortality data for other UK countries please see statistics on deaths in Scotland and statistics on deaths in Northern Ireland.