Weekly deaths in England and Wales 2024

There were 10,785 deaths registered in England and Wales for the week ending October 18, 2024, compared with 10,686 in the previous week. During this time period, the two weeks with the highest number of weekly deaths were in April 2020, with the week ending April 17, 2020, having 22,351 deaths, and the following week 21,997 deaths, a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.

COVID-19 in the UK

The first cases of Coronavirus in the United Kingdom were recorded on January 31, 2020, but it was not until a month later that cases began to rise exponentially. By March 5 of this year there were more than 100 cases, rising to 1,000 days later and passing 10,000 cumulative cases by March 26. At the height of the pandemic in late April and early May, there were around six thousand new cases being recorded daily. As of January 2023, there have been more than 24.2 million confirmed cumulative cases of COVID-19 recorded in the United Kingdom, resulting in 202,156 deaths.

Death and life expectancy

As of 2022, the life expectancy for women in the UK was just over 82.5 years, and almost 78.6 years for men. Compared with 1765, when average life expectancy was under 39 years, this is a huge improvement in historical terms. Even in the more recent past, life expectancy was less than 47 years at the start of the 20th Century, and was under 70 as recently as the 1950s. Despite these significant developments in the long-term, improvements in life expectancy stalled between 2009/11 and 2015/17. Following the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, life expectancy improvements have gone into reverse, with life expectancy at birth falling by 23 weeks for females, and 37 weeks for males between 2020 and 2022.

Weekly number of deaths in England and Wales from January 2020 to October 2024

Characteristic	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Week 53	-	8,477	-	-	-
Week 52	11,520	13,013	9,517	7,447	-
Week 51	13,011	12,400	14,530	13,213	-
Week 50	12,292	11,930	12,389	11,960	-
Week 49	12,303	11,659	11,694	11,318	-
Week 48	12,456	11,467	11,307	11,328	-
Week 47	12,535	12,103	11,483	11,385	-
Week 46	12,254	12,050	11,579	11,243	-
Week 45	11,812	11,550	11,538	11,489	-
Week 44	10,887	10,987	11,795	10,983	-
Week 43	10,739	11,308	11,245	10,445	-
Week 42	10,534	11,177	11,938	10,388	10,785
Week 41	9,954	10,807	11,699	10,544	10,686
Week 40	9,945	10,510	11,207	10,103	10,392
Week 39	9,634	10,684	10,960	9,979	10,096
Week 38	9,523	11,009	8,751	10,384	9,421
Week 37	9,811	11,035	10,673	10,355	9,832
Week 36	7,739	8,797	10,753	10,168	10,060
Week 35	9,032	10,268	8,868	8,441	8,039
Week 34	9,631	10,013	10,942	10,086	9,819
Week 33	9,392	10,372	10,982	10,063	9,844
Week 32	8,945	10,187	10,355	9,991	10,028
Week 31	8,946	10,135	10,698	10,038	10,267
Week 30	8,891	9,744	11,013	9,684	10,169
Week 29	8,823	9,697	10,978	9,659	10,182
Week 28	8,690	9,752	10,515	10,030	10,536
Week 27	9,140	8,808	10,232	9,736	10,333
Week 26	8,979	8,690	10,357	10,373	10,609
Week 25	9,339	9,459	10,836	10,472	10,455
Week 24	9,976	10,204	10,844	10,700	10,486
Week 23	10,709	7,778	11,742	10,940	10,925
Week 22	9,824	9,628	6,825	8,839	8,674
Week 21	12,288	9,860	10,860	11,111	10,910
Week 20	14,573	10,164	11,520	11,654	11,256
Week 19	12,657	7,986	12,048	10,367	9,622
Week 18	17,953	9,692	9,941	10,143	11,074
Week 17	21,997	9,941	12,441	12,152	11,171
Week 16	22,351	10,428	10,680	12,420	11,878
Week 15	18,516	9,098	9,919	9,978	12,333
Week 14	16,387	8,201	10,687	10,089	9,701
Week 13	11,141	10,045	9,840	11,584	9,392
Week 12	10,645	10,311	10,745	12,052	11,249
Week 11	11,019	10,987	10,927	12,133	11,369
Week 10	10,895	11,592	11,227	11,410	11,574
Week 9	10,816	12,614	11,225	12,049	11,518
Week 8	10,841	13,809	11,150	11,952	11,788
Week 7	10,944	15,354	11,271	12,031	11,817
Week 6	10,986	17,192	11,558	12,672	12,529
Week 5	11,612	18,448	11,862	13,412	12,664
Week 4	11,856	18,676	12,401	14,137	12,732
Week 3	12,990	18,042	12,776	15,804	12,812
Week 2	14,058	17,751	13,311	17,381	13,713
Week 1	12,254	10,069	12,262	14,983	11,945

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Release date

October 2024

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United Kingdom (England, Wales)

Survey time period

January 2020 to October 2024

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This statistic is using original data from the Office for National Statistics and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0.

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