Friday, March 25th, 2022, 8:15 am
UK Government Data: How UK Mortality Rates Compare Pre- and Post-COVID-19
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earing in mind 2020 and 2021 have warped 5-year averages somewhat, I’ve decided to dig up data from 4 years prior to the pandemic. We have these data sets as OpenDocument Format (ODF):
Let’s examine the figures for the first two months of the years (more recent data from this year can be incomplete).
Year, followed by total number of deaths per week (in England and Wales combined):
2016: 13,045 11,501 11,473 11,317 11,052 11,170 10,590 11,056
2017: 11,991 13,715 13,610 12,877 12,485 12,269 11,644 11,794
2018: 12,723 15,050 14,256 13,935 13,285 12,495 12,246 12,142
2019: 10,955 12,609 11,860 11,740 11,297 11,660 11,824 11,295
2022: 12,262 13,311 12,776 12,401 11,862 11,558 11,271 11,150
Highlighted (bold) is the highest figure for each column.
This shows that 2018 was a lot more “deadly” than this year and the same is true for 2017. We aren’t even attempting to split by cause of death (or attribution). These are just the totals.
Source: ONS
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
