Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
Out of interest, do we know when 2021 figures are out? Presumably, despite the important nature of the topic, it isnt actually a huge undertaking to add up death figures?
It’s not the confirmed figure but the preliminary figures for 2021 deaths are 586,214 deaths. Compared to the 2015-2019 5 year average that’s a ~11% increase.

The data can be found here:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=%2fp...dandwales.xlsx