Weekly deaths tables – week ending 15 March 2024

The tables containing data on deaths registered for the week ending 15 March 2024 were released at 9.30am today.

Key points 

Date of registration

• The provisional number of total deaths registered in Northern Ireland in the week ending 15 March 2024 (week 11) was 374, 27 fewer than the previous week.
• The number of expected deaths for week 11 was estimated at 327 using the new methodology, based on mortality rates and trends, compared to 292 using the previous, 5-year average based methodology. The relative number of excess deaths based on the expected deaths for week 11 was estimated at 47 using the new method and 82 using the previous method.
• Three deaths mentioning Covid-19 on the death certificate were registered in week 11 of 2024, which is one less than the previous week.  These represented 0.8% of all deaths registered in that week.
• For 2024, by 15 March, 49.5% of deaths were males and 50.5% were females.  Just over two-thirds (66.9%) of deaths were in the 75 years and over age group.
• From week 1 of 2024, to the week ending 15 March, there have been 4,281 deaths registered. 1,991 (46.5%) of these took place in hospital, 777 (18.1%) in care homes and 1,513 (35.3%) at residential addresses, hospices, or other locations.

Date of death

• The provisional number of deaths occurring in the week ending 15 March (including those registered up to and including 20 March 2024) was 249.  

The tables are available from the weekly deaths webpage.

Historical weekly deaths data are available on the Final Historical Data page under weekly deaths.

More information on the new method for producing estimates of expected deaths, used to determine excess deaths, is available from the ONS website and a summary paper is available on the NISRA website.

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