FOI ref: FOI/2023/4769

You asked

​​May I make via a freedom of information request for the number of deaths in England in the years 2020, 2021 and 2022 and for the statistics on the all the age ranges please in those years?

We said

Thank you for your request.

We are responsible for the production of mortality data for England and Wales, this is driven by information collected from the death certificate at death registration.

For deaths in England and Wales for 2020 - 2021, please see the following publication: Deaths Registered Series. Please see table 1a which holds annual counts for 1838-2021. Table 5 and 6 hold these annual deaths broken down by sex and single year of age.

For provisional death counts in 2022, please see table 2 of the Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional. This table has weekly deaths split by five-year age group. Finalised data for 2022 will be available in July 2023, we will be able to begin analysis on this once we have received subsequent data from late death registrations from deaths that occurred in 2022.

If you would like to discuss this enquiry further, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk.