Release

Comparisons of all-cause mortality between European countries and regions

Release date: 20 December 2022 9:30am

Summary

Comparisons of all-cause excess mortality on a weekly basis since the start of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Measures include relative age-standardised mortality rates and relative cumulative age-standardised mortality rates.

Publications

Data

Methodology

  • Comparing all-cause mortality between European countries and regions methodology

    Quality, methodology and comparability information for data used to calculate excess all-cause mortality for the UK, its constituent countries and European countries and their regions as reported in Comparisons of all-cause mortality between European countries and regions. Includes methodology for calculating measures of excess mortality, quality of the data sources, comparability of the measures and how to interpret the data.

Contact details

Name

Georgia Brett, Sarah Caul and Siôn Ward

Email

health.data@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 1329 444110

Changes to this release date

  1. Previous date

    1 November 2022 9:30am

    Reason for change

    Due to a quality assurance issue that has emerged in the past week we are now postponing the release of this publication. Please accept our sincere apologies for the delay.

  2. Previous date

    23 January 2023 9:30am

    Reason for change

    This release is postponed as a result of further quality assurance required. Please accept our apologies for this delay.