Average age of death for the last 10 years

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What is the average age of death over the last decade?

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Average age of death is available in our Average age at death, by sex, UK publication. This provides mean, median and modal ages at death in the UK and its constituent countries, 2001 to 2003 and 2017 to 2018.

If this does not meet your needs, we may be able to create a bespoke output. Information on average age of death over the past decade, along with other 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: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.

For COVID-19 deaths we have published the following user requested data sets:

Average age of death (median and mean) of persons whose death was due to COVID-19 or involved COVID-19, by sex, deaths registered up to week ending 2 October 2020, England and Wales

Average age of death (median and mean) of persons whose death was due to COVID-19 or involved COVID-19, by sex, deaths registered in week ending 9 October 2020 to week ending 1 January 2021, England and Wales

Average age of death (mean) of persons from all causes and those involving COVID-19 by sex: deaths registered from week ending 13 March up to week ending 4 December 2020, England and Wales