The number of deaths in private homes has been generally increasing since 2005 but, as today’s article shows, in 2020 there was a large increase, with deaths 29.2% higher than 2019 ow.ly/OOsR50GK7Au
There were 166,576 registered deaths in 2020 that occurred in private homes.
▪️ males (92,042 deaths), 31.7% above the five-year average
▪️ females (74,534 deaths) 34.6% above the five-year average
Private homes are the only place where deaths have been consistently above the five-year average in all months from January 2020 to June 2021 ow.ly/g6Wg50GK87x
Delving deeper, deaths in private homes continue to be high.
▪️ 85,910 deaths between January 2021 and June 2021
Compared with
▪️ 84,051 deaths between January 2020 to June 2020
While Ischaemic heart diseases were the leading cause of death in private homes for males in 2020, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease saw the largest increase in deaths compared to the five-year average (72.5%) ow.ly/g6Wg50GK87x
This was also the case for females, with ischaemic heart diseases being the leading cause of death, and dementia and Alzheimer’s disease also being the largest increase in deaths cause compared to the five-year average (60.7%) ow.ly/g6Wg50GK87x
We've led the development of a new method for estimating the number of excess deaths across UK countries.
Julie Stanborough talks us through the data released today and how this new method will give us a better understanding in this complex area ➡️ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
Expected number of deaths used to calculate excess mortality is now estimated from age-specific mortality rates rather than death counts, so changes in population size and age structure are taken into account. Our new method also accounts for trends in population mortality rates.
In 2023, the new method estimates 10,994 excess deaths in the UK, which is 20,448 fewer than the current method.
We've published a new article exploring the disability, health status, ethnic group, religion and employment of people of different sexual orientations (aged 16 years and over) in England and Wales using #Census2021 data.
#Census2021 included a voluntary question about sexual orientation of usual residents aged 16 and over:
▪️ 89.4% said they were straight or heterosexual
▪️ 3.2% identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or another sexual orientation (LGB+)
▪️ 7.5% did not respond to the question
People who identified as LGB+ were younger on average, with a far higher proportion aged between 16 and 34 years (57.9%) than in the overall population of England and Wales (29.6%).
However, different LGB+ sexual orientation groups had markedly different age distributions.