Weekly deaths tables – up to week ending 17 January 2025

Date published: 24 January 2025

The tables containing data on deaths registered for the weeks up to week ending 17 January 2025 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 17 January (week 3) was 420.
• The number of expected deaths for week 3 was estimated at 407, using the methodology based on mortality rates and trends. The relative number of excess deaths based on the expected deaths for week 3 was estimated at 13.
• For the week ending 17 January 2025, the number of expected deaths was estimated at 204 for males and 204 for females, using the current methodology, based on mortality rates and trends. The relative number of excess deaths based on the expected deaths for the same week, was estimated at 0 for males and 12 for females, using the current method.
• For 2025, by 17 January, 51.2 % of deaths were males and 48.8 % were females. Over two-thirds (66.8 %) of deaths were in the 75 years and over age group.
• In 2025, there have been 1380 deaths registered. 668 (48.4 %) of these took place in hospital, 254 (18.4 %) in care homes and 458 (33.2 %) at residential addresses, hospices, or other locations.

Date of death

• The provisional number of deaths occurring in the week ending 17 January (including those registered up to and including 22 January 2025) was 329. 

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 current 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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