Why are so many people dying young?

[North Cardiff Blue]

Here is a handy graphic showing the %age above or below the 2015-2019 average deaths by broad age group and gender. These are Office for Health Improvement and Disparities figures for England.

https://imgur.com/a/67Hun5J#3jIQYdt

As you can see the number of people dying ‘young’ is about 15% above the pre-pandemic average.


Here’s another heat map but only for 2023 using ONS data for England and Wales and standard deviation from the 2015-2019 average.

https://imgbb.com/7bK4BVf

Both these heat maps show that there are significant excess deaths in the under 65s.

I thought there must be, all the other points are valid, but covid (not the jabs which are a little bit of Covid) has made a difference.