Monday, November 14th, 2022, 11:18 am
Over 13,000 Registered Deaths in the UK Per Week in Autumn (We’re Still Losing Almost as Many People as When COVID-19 Started)
Filed under: IT IS hard to find mortality rates (pre-COVID-19) for the whole of the UK. The closest thing to it is this FOIA/FOI request or this month’s data file, which shows:
The number on the right is total deaths per week (2022).
Looking at the FOIA, here’s what it says: “Using the Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional, as at week 46 (13th November 2020) 529,928 registered deaths in England and Wales.”
For the year prior: “In 2019, there were 530,841 deaths registered in England and Wales.”
Screenshot below included, as the page will vanish one day:
So far, in the first 43 weeks of 2022, in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland combined there have been 536,196 deaths (I’ve put together the numbers).
We’re seeing about 13,000 deaths per week, so expect 40,000 more in the 3 weeks that follow, i.e. about 575,000 deaths.
In the above FOIA, ONS does not give the complete figures for the whole of the UK (those are hard to find, maybe by intention), but using this weekly update we get for England and Wales:
471,064. With 9 more weeks ahead (for the year to finish). 3 more weeks from now it’ll be about 502,000 compared to 529,928 at the same period in 2020.
Extrapolate a little and find that in 2022 we’re not doing a lot better (than in 2020) in terms of preventing deaths.
