Weekly registered deaths: 325 for week ending 2 January 2026
Date published:
Please note that the total number of registrations in week 1 may have been impacted by the bank holiday office closure on 1 January 2026. Caution should be applied when comparing week 1 totals with previous weeks.
Data on deaths registered for the weeks ending 19 December and 26 December 2025 were also published today.
Key points
Date of registration
- The provisional number of total deaths registered in Northern Ireland in the week ending 2 January (week 1) was 325.
- The number of expected deaths for week 1 was estimated at 445, using the methodology based on mortality rates and trends. The relative number of excess deaths based on the expected deaths for week 1 was estimated at -120.
- For the week ending 2 January 2026, the provisional number of deaths was 176 for males and 149 for females.
- The number of expected deaths was estimated at 224 for males and 221 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 -48 for males and -72 for females, using the current method.
- In the week ending 2 January, 54.2% of deaths were males and 45.8% were females. Over two-thirds (69.5%) of deaths were in the 75 years and over age group.
- In week 1 of 2026, there have been 325 deaths registered. 164 (50.5%) of these took place in hospital, 52 (16.0%) in care homes and 109 (33.5%) at residential addresses, hospices, or other locations.
- The number of deaths mentioning flu and/or pneumonia on the death certificate registered in week 1 2026 totalled 72.
Date of death
- The provisional number of deaths occurring in the week ending 2 January (including those registered up to and including 7 January 2026) was 325.
Note for Editor
The tables are available from the weekly deaths webpage.
In addition to weekly registered deaths for week ending 2 January 2026, the tables containing data on deaths registered for the weeks ending 19 December and 26 December 2025 were also released at 9.30am today. These data were not previously published due to the Christmas and New Year period.
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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