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Weekly number of deaths in England and Wales from January 2020 to July 2026

Characteristic	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
Week 53	-	8,477	-	-	-	-	-
Week 52	11,520	13,013	9,517	7,447	7,151	7,403	-
Week 51	13,011	12,400	14,530	13,213	12,636	12,304	-
Week 50	12,292	11,930	12,389	11,960	11,951	11,652	-
Week 49	12,303	11,659	11,694	11,318	11,510	11,379	-
Week 48	12,456	11,467	11,307	11,328	11,011	11,165	-
Week 47	12,535	12,103	11,483	11,385	10,933	11,183	-
Week 46	12,254	12,050	11,579	11,243	11,045	11,480	-
Week 45	11,812	11,550	11,538	11,489	11,133	11,297	-
Week 44	10,887	10,987	11,795	10,983	10,645	10,587	-
Week 43	10,739	11,308	11,245	10,445	11,014	10,860	-
Week 42	10,534	11,177	11,938	10,388	10,783	10,878	-
Week 41	9,954	10,807	11,699	10,544	10,684	10,614	-
Week 40	9,945	10,510	11,207	10,103	10,390	10,325	-
Week 39	9,634	10,684	10,960	9,979	10,097	10,014	-
Week 38	9,523	11,009	8,751	10,384	9,425	9,760	-
Week 37	9,811	11,035	10,673	10,355	9,829	9,889	-
Week 36	7,739	8,797	10,753	10,168	10,066	10,396	-
Week 35	9,032	10,268	8,868	8,441	8,039	8,279	-
Week 34	9,631	10,013	10,942	10,086	9,825	10,055	-
Week 33	9,392	10,372	10,982	10,063	9,846	9,431	-
Week 32	8,945	10,187	10,355	9,991	10,025	9,567	-
Week 31	8,946	10,135	10,698	10,038	10,265	9,923	-
Week 30	8,891	9,744	11,013	9,684	10,169	9,813	-
Week 29	8,823	9,697	10,978	9,659	10,182	9,938	-
Week 28	8,690	9,752	10,515	10,030	10,532	10,157	-
Week 27	9,140	8,808	10,232	9,736	10,333	10,022	10,100
Week 26	8,979	8,690	10,357	10,373	10,609	10,080	9,673
Week 25	9,339	9,459	10,836	10,472	10,459	10,411	10,446
Week 24	9,976	10,204	10,844	10,700	10,493	10,905	11,181
Week 23	10,709	7,778	11,742	10,940	10,926	11,056	11,505
Week 22	9,824	9,628	6,825	8,839	8,675	8,638	8,641
Week 21	12,288	9,860	10,860	11,111	10,912	11,257	10,888
Week 20	14,573	10,164	11,520	11,654	11,255	11,537	10,986
Week 19	12,657	7,986	12,048	10,367	9,620	9,769	8,903
Week 18	17,953	9,692	9,941	10,143	11,076	12,488	11,511
Week 17	21,997	9,941	12,441	12,152	11,173	9,394	11,716
Week 16	22,351	10,428	10,680	12,420	11,880	9,362	11,947
Week 15	18,516	9,098	9,919	9,978	12,334	11,002	9,118
Week 14	16,387	8,201	10,687	10,089	9,701	11,448	9,205
Week 13	11,141	10,045	9,840	11,584	9,391	11,243	10,601
Week 12	10,645	10,311	10,745	12,052	11,249	11,555	10,947
Week 11	11,019	10,987	10,927	12,133	11,368	11,747	11,376
Week 10	10,895	11,592	11,227	11,410	11,574	12,006	11,511
Week 9	10,816	12,614	11,225	12,049	11,517	11,907	11,562
Week 8	10,841	13,809	11,150	11,952	11,788	11,607	11,744
Week 7	10,944	15,354	11,271	12,031	11,817	12,367	12,273
Week 6	10,986	17,192	11,558	12,672	12,529	13,020	12,550
Week 5	11,612	18,448	11,862	13,412	12,664	13,712	13,313
Week 4	11,856	18,676	12,401	14,137	12,732	13,960	13,675
Week 3	12,990	18,042	12,776	15,804	12,813	14,679	14,313
Week 2	14,058	17,751	13,311	17,381	13,713	14,415	14,041
Week 1	12,254	10,069	12,262	14,983	11,945	10,866	9,775

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July 2026

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United Kingdom (England, Wales)

Survey time period

January 2020 to July 2026

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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 .

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There were 10,100 deaths registered in England and Wales for the week ending July 3, 2026, compared with 10,022 for the corresponding week in 2025. 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.

Death and life expectancy

As of 2024, the life expectancy for women in the UK was just over 83 years, and around 79years 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, and even declined in the early 2020s. Between 2020 and 2022, for example, life expectancy at birth fell by 23 weeks for females, and 37 weeks for males.

COVID-19 in the UK

The first cases of COVID-19 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 were more than 24.2 million confirmed cumulative cases of COVID-19 recorded in the United Kingdom, resulting in 202,156 deaths.��