Annual death totals in Scotland for the last 5 years: FOI release
- Published
- 12 February 2021
- FOI reference
- FOI/202000128465
- Date received
- 21 December 2020
- Date responded
- 30 December 2020
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
Information requested
Yearly death totals in Scotland for the last 5 years up-to and including today’s date (21/12). This is the total number of deaths regardless of cause of death.
Response
I enclose a copy of almost all of the information you requested (the statistics only go up to the 20th December of this year):
- 2016 (full year) - 56,718
- 2017 (full year) - 57,872
- 2018 (full year) - 58,202
- 2019 (full year) - 57,691
- 2020 (up to 20th December) - 62,415
National Records of Scotland publish figures for deaths. I sourced the figures from 2016-2019 from a spreadsheet here: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/vital-events/general-publications/weekly-and-monthly-data-on-births-and-deaths/deaths-involving-coronavirus-covid-19-in-scotland/related-statistics
The figure for 2020 is from here: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/covid19stats
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Contact
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Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
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