Provisional counts of deaths in care homes caused by coronavirus (COVID-19) by local authority. Published by the Office for National Statistics and Care Quality Commission.

Deaths registered in private homes by age, sex, place of occurrence and selected underlying causes of death and the leading causes of death.

There were 667,479 deaths in the United Kingdom in 2021, compared with 689,629 in 2020. Between 2003 and 2011, the annual number of deaths in the UK fell from 612,085 to just over 552,232. Since 2011 however, the annual number of annual deaths in the United Kingdom has steadily grown, with the number recorded in 2020, the highest since 1918 when there were 715,246 deaths. Both of these spikes in the number of deaths can be attributed to infectious disease pandemics. The great influenza pandemic of 1918, which was at its height towards the end of World War One, and the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused a large number of deaths in 2020.  Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic The weekly death figures for England and Wales highlight the tragic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. In two weeks in April of 2020, there were 22,351 and 21,997 deaths respectively, almost 12,000 excess deaths in each of those weeks. Although hospitals were the most common location of these deaths, a significant number of these deaths also took place in care homes, with 7,911 deaths taking place in care homes for the week ending April 24, 2020, far higher than usual. By the summer of 2020, the number of deaths in England and Wales reached more usual levels, before a second wave of excess deaths hit the country in early 2021. Although subsequent waves of COVID-19 cases resulted in far fewer deaths, the number of excess deaths remained elevated throughout 2022. Long-term life expectancy trends As of 2022 the life expectancy for men in the United Kingdom was 78.57, and almost 82.57 for women, compared with life expectancies of 75 for men and 80 for women in 2002. In historical terms, this is a major improvement in relation to the mid 18th century, when the overall life expectancy was just under 39 years. Between 2011 and 2017, improvements in life expectancy in the UK did start to decline, and have gone into reverse since 2018/20. Between 2020 and 2022 for example, life expectancy for men in the UK has fallen by over 37 weeks, and by almost 23 weeks for women, when compared with the previous year.

This statistic displays the share of deaths from unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning in the United Kingdom (UK) from 1995 to 2019, by tenure type. The majority of deaths (57 percent) caused by unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning occurred in a house where the owner was the occupier.

Registered deaths in care homes in the United Kingdom. Contains death registrations in care homes by age, sex and leading cause of death.

As of May 1 2020, there were over 23 thousand more deaths in care homes in England and Wales than there were on the same date in 2019, with 12.5 thousand of these caused by Coronavirus (COVID-19) and 10.6 thousand due to other causes.

This dataset as reported to the Rural Payments Agency contains a list of death registrations that have passed initial Cattle Tracing Systems validation checks for slaughtered male dairy cattle born in Great Britain that died at slaughter house, born before 1 July 1996 which were not registered until 2000 by age at death in 2010 Attribution statement:

There were 309 fire-related fatalities in Great Britain in the 2023/24 reporting year, a decline on the previous reporting year when there were 323. In the early 2000s, the annual number of fire fatalities was consistently over 500, with numbers gradually falling throughout that decade. In 2011/12 the number of fatalities related to fire fell below 400 for the first time, and has remained below 400 since that point. Incidents rise as workforce shrinks Although there has been a net decrease in the number of incidents attended by fire and rescue services since the early 2010s, the current trend from 2014/15 onwards has been one of increase. In 2022/23, there were 759,456 incidents attended by the fire service, which was the most in a reporting year since 2010/11. Like many other public services, the fire service cut significant numbers of staff during the 2010s, with the number of fire and rescue workers in England falling by around 10,000 between 2008 and 2018. In a similar time period, expenditure on fire-protection services in the UK was cut from 3.11 billion in 2009/10, to just 2.72 billion in 2018/19. Workplace fatalities also declining The fall in fire-related fatalities since the 1980s is evidence that the UK has become an increasingly safe society in recent decades. The significant fall in workplace deaths is also evidence of this, with fatal injuries at work declining from 651 in 1974 to just 138 in 2023/24. Injuries to workers have also fallen, with incidents almost halving between 2000/01 and 2023/24. The large shift from more dangerous jobs in manufacturing, production, and agriculture to service-orientated roles also certainly play a role in this decline as well.

This dataset as reported to the Rural Payments Agency contains a list of slaughter house deaths for buffalo reported dead on the application from January 2005 to June 2010. This includes buffalo that dies on a farm and imported buffalo. Attribution statement:

In the week ending August 27, 2021, there were 10,268 deaths in England and Wales with just over 4.5 thousand taking place in Hospitals. Between April 10 and April 24 of 2020 there were over 15 thousand deaths occurring in care homes, due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

This statistic displays the share of deaths from unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning in the United Kingdom (UK) from 1995 to 2019, by place of incident. The majority of deaths, 56 percent, caused by unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning occurred in a house.

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Provisional counts of the number of care home resident deaths registered in England and Wales, by region, including deaths involving coronavirus (COVID-19), in the latest weeks for which data are available.

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