Volume 27, Number 5—May 2021
Dispatch
Epidemiology of Confirmed COVID-19 Deaths in Adults, England, March–December 2020
Table
Coronavirus disease cumulative mortality rates among adults, by age group, sex, region, ethnicity, and residence-based socioeconomic deprivation score, England, UK, March 2–December 3, 2020*
Characteristic | Age group, y |
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18–59 |
>60 |
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No. cumulative deaths | Population† | Cumulative mortality rate§ | No. cumulative deaths | Population† | Cumulative mortality rate§ | ||
Sex | |||||||
F | 1,406 | 15,399,252 | 9.1 | 23,809 | 7,081,746 | 336 | |
M |
2,497 |
15,399,681 |
16.2 |
30,473 |
6,141,881 |
496 |
|
Region | |||||||
London | 868 | 5,266,170 | 16.5 | 6,959 | 1,437,281 | 484 | |
South East | 368 | 4,554,266 | 8.1 | 6,399 | 2,217,002 | 289 | |
East of England | 371 | 3,313,330 | 11.2 | 5,332 | 1,646,457 | 324 | |
West Midlands | 479 | 3,059,310 | 15.7 | 6,696 | 1,405,816 | 476 | |
Yorkshire and Humber | 399 | 2,854,445 | 14.0 | 6,494 | 1,324,798 | 490 | |
East Midlands | 299 | 2,486,593 | 12.0 | 4,844 | 1,201,199 | 403 | |
North West | 727 | 3,803,145 | 19.1 | 10,708 | 1,765,241 | 607 | |
North East | 182 | 1,377,087 | 13.2 | 3,652 | 686,963 | 532 | |
South West |
156 |
2,797,918 |
5.6 |
2,777 |
1,568,870 |
177 |
|
Ethnicity | |||||||
White | 2,625 | 25,429,023 | 10.3 | 48,054 | 12,384,629 | 388 | |
Black or Black British | 407 | 1,299,892 | 31.3 | 1,523 | 202,902 | 751 | |
Asian or Asian British | 561 | 2,920,985 | 19.2 | 3,163 | 510,845 | 619 | |
Mixed | 56 | 750,086 | 7.5 | 241 | 66,357 | 363 | |
Other |
187 |
398,948 |
46.9 |
866 |
58,894 |
1,470 |
|
IMD score | |||||||
1 (most deprived) | 1,299 | 6,214,331 | 20.9 | 13,633 | 1,934,761 | 705 | |
2 | 985 | 6,414,752 | 15.4 | 11,601 | 2,314,652 | 501 | |
3 | 651 | 5,925,517 | 11.0 | 10,226 | 2,777,687 | 368 | |
4 | 537 | 5,619,071 | 9.6 | 9,824 | 2,965,692 | 331 | |
5 (least deprived) |
377 |
5,263,233 |
7.2 |
8,577 |
3020639 |
284 |
|
Total* | 3,904 | 30,798,933 | 12.7 | 54,282 | 13,223,627 | 410 |
*IMD, Indices for Multiple Deprivation. †Deaths with missing information are excluded: 476 for region, 503 for ethnicity, and 476 for IMD. Population denominator is from 2018 except for IMD. For IMD (3), population denominator is 20–59 and >60 year age groups only, and is from 2017. §Deaths/100,000 population.
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1Members of the PHE COVID-19 Mortality Working Group are listed at the end of this article.