Weekly deaths tables – week ending 7 July 2023

Date published: 17 July 2023

The tables containing data on deaths registered for the week ending 7 July 2023 were released at 9.30am today.

Please note: the content of the weekly deaths tables has been revised from Friday 7 July to reduce the amount of detail on covid-related deaths. Analysis for all deaths registered and top-level data on covid-related deaths continue to be available in the weekly tables. We will, of course, keep this under review should the need arise to include more analysis again.

Key points 

Date of registration

• The provisional number of total deaths registered in Northern Ireland in the week ending 7 July 2023 (week 27) was 343, 79 more than the previous week and 80 more than the 2018-2022 5-year average (292).
• Six deaths mentioning Covid-19 on the death certificate were registered in week 27 of 2023, three more than the previous week.  These represented 1.7% of all deaths registered in that week.
• In week ending  7 July, 49.8% of deaths were males and 50.2% were females. Over two-thirds (67.2%) of deaths were in the 75 years and over age group.
• From week 1 of 2023 to week ending 7 July 2023, there have been 9,227 deaths. 4,392 (47.6%) took place in hospital, 1,578 (17.1%) in care homes and 3,257 (35.3%) at residential addresses, hospices or other locations.

Date of death

• The provisional number of deaths occurring in the week ending 7 July (including those registered up to and including 12 July 2023) was 215.
• At time of reporting, one Covid-19 related death had occurred in the week ending 7 July, bringing the total number of deaths mentioning Covid-19 on the death certificate having occurred from week 1 of 2023 to 7 July 2023 (including those registered up to and including 12 July 2023), to 271.

The tables are available from the weekly deaths webpage.

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