Official Statistics

Excess mortality in England: weekly reports

Weekly excess mortality in England – broken down by age, sex, geographical area, ethnic group, level of deprivation, cause of death and place of death.

From:
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
Published
20 July 2020
Last updated
3 February 2022 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Weekly excess mortality in England analysis

https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiYmUwNmFhMjYtNGZhYS00NDk2LWFlMTAtOTg0OGNhNmFiNGM0IiwidCI6ImVlNGUxNDk5LTRhMzUtNGIyZS1hZDQ3LTVmM2NmOWRlODY2NiIsImMiOjh9

Excess mortality in England: methodology

https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/documents/EMMethodology.pdf

Archive of excess mortality in England weekly reports, 3 July 2020 to 26 February 2021

https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/static-reports/mortality-surveillance/excess-mortality-in-england-latest.html

Details

Monitoring excess mortality provides understanding of the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) during the course of the pandemic and beyond. Excess mortality in these weekly analyses is defined as the number of deaths throughout the pandemic that are above the number expected, based on mortality rates in previous years.

In these analyses, the expected number of death registrations is modelled using 5 years of data from preceding years to estimate the number of death registrations expected in each week.

Excess deaths are estimated from 21 March 2020 onwards. They are broken down by age, sex, region, upper tier local authority, ethnic group, level of deprivation, cause of death and place of death.

These are experimental statistics. See guide to experimental statistics.

Excess deaths by region are also available.

If you have any comments or feedback, please contact eands-enquiries@phe.gov.uk.

Published 20 July 2020
Last updated 3 February 2022 + show all updates

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