Weekly deaths tables – week ending 30 December 2022 and 6 January 2023

Date published: 13 January 2023

Topics: Births, deaths and marriages, Deaths, Death Statistics, Weekly death registrations in Northern Ireland, Cause of Death, Covid-19 related deaths, Covid-19 related deaths in Northern Ireland

The tables containing data on deaths registered for the week ending 6 January 2023 were released at 9.30am today.

Excess deaths may be impacted by General Registration Office closures over public holidays on weeks 51 and 52 which can result in inflated/deflated excess death totals so should be treated with caution.

General Regstration offices were closed for 3 days on week 52 so total number of deaths registered should be treated with caution.

Key points

Date of registration

The provisional number of total deaths registered in Northern Ireland in the week ending 6 January 2023 (week 53) was 474, 236 more than the previous week and 35 more than the 2017-2021 5-year average (439). Please note that the 5 year average for weeks 51 and 52 can be impacted in certain years by the Christmas public holidays when registration offices are closed.
Nineteen deaths mentioning Covid-19 on the death certificate were registered in week 53 of 2022, 10 more than the previous week. These represented 4.0% of all deaths registered in that week.
The total number of Covid-19 related deaths registered from the start of the pandemic was 5,053 by 6 January 2023.
Since the beginning of the pandemic to 6 January 2023, the 75 years and over age-group accounted for almost two-thirds (65.4%) of all deaths and almost three-quarters (73.8%) of Covid-19 related deaths.
Over the period of the pandemic, Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon District had a higher proportions of Covid-19 related deaths (12.2%) compared with their share of all deaths in Northern Ireland (10.3%).

Covid-19 deaths based on date of death

5,073 deaths mentioning Covid-19 on the death certificate have occurred in total from 18March 2020 to 6 January 2023 (including those registered up to and including 11 January 2023).
At time of reporting, 17 Covid-19 related deaths had occurred in week ending 6 January.
Of these 5,073 deaths involving Covid-19, 3,547 (69.9%) took place in hospital, 1,041 (20.5%) in care homes and 485 (9.6%) at residential addresses, hospices or other locations.

A weekly deaths dashboard is also available.

The tables are available from the weekly deaths webpage.

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