Weekly deaths in England and Wales 2023

There were 11,243 deaths registered in England and Wales for the week ending November 17, 2023 compared with 11,489,in the previous week. The number of excess deaths in this week were 284 above the five-year average, compared with 534 in the previous week. During this time period the two weeks with the highest number of weekly deaths were in April 2020, with the week ending April 17, 2020 having 22,351 deaths, and the following week 21,997 deaths, a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.

Coronavirus in the UK

The first cases of Coronavirus in the United Kingdom were recorded on January 31, 2020, but it was not until a month later that cases began to rise exponentially. By March 5 of this year there were more than 100 cases, rising to 1,000 days later and passing 10,000 cumulative cases by March 26. At the height of the pandemic in late April and early May there were around six thousand new cases being recorded daily. As of January 13, 2023, there have been more than 24.2 million cumulative cases of Coronavirus recorded in the United Kingdom.

How many deaths has COVID-19 caused?

According to recent estimates, as of January 2023 there had been approximately 202,157 confirmed deaths caused by COVID-19 in the UK. This tragic figure means that the UK currently has the seventh-highest number of Coronavirus deaths worldwide. While the UK has clearly suffered significantly from the pandemic, it also managed to execute one of the fastest vaccination programs in the world, and may be one of the first major countries to achieve herd immunity as a consequence.

Weekly number of deaths in England and Wales from January 2020 to November 2023

Characteristic	2020	2021	2022	2023
Week 53	-	8,477	-	-
Week 52	11,520	13,013	9,517	-
Week 51	13,011	12,400	14,530	-
Week 50	12,292	11,930	12,389	-
Week 49	12,303	11,659	11,694	-
Week 48	12,456	11,467	11,307	-
Week 47	12,535	12,103	11,483	-
Week 46	12,254	12,050	11,579	11,243
Week 45	11,812	11,550	11,538	11,489
Week 44	10,887	10,987	11,795	10,983
Week 43	10,739	11,308	11,245	10,445
Week 42	10,534	11,177	11,938	10,388
Week 41	9,954	10,807	11,699	10,544
Week 40	9,945	10,510	11,207	10,103
Week 39	9,634	10,684	10,960	9,979
Week 38	9,523	11,009	8,751	10,384
Week 37	9,811	11,035	10,673	10,355
Week 36	7,739	8,797	10,753	10,168
Week 35	9,032	10,268	8,868	8,441
Week 34	9,631	10,013	10,942	10,086
Week 33	9,392	10,372	10,982	10,063
Week 32	8,945	10,187	10,355	9,991
Week 31	8,946	10,135	10,698	10,038
Week 30	8,891	9,744	11,013	9,684
Week 29	8,823	9,697	10,978	9,659
Week 28	8,690	9,752	10,515	10,030
Week 27	9,140	8,808	10,232	9,736
Week 26	8,979	8,690	10,357	10,373
Week 25	9,339	9,459	10,836	10,472
Week 24	9,976	10,204	10,844	10,700
Week 23	10,709	7,778	11,742	10,940
Week 22	9,824	9,628	6,825	8,839
Week 21	12,288	9,860	10,860	11,111
Week 20	14,573	10,164	11,520	11,654
Week 19	12,657	7,986	12,048	10,367
Week 18	17,953	9,692	9,941	10,143
Week 17	21,997	9,941	12,441	12,152
Week 16	22,351	10,428	10,680	12,420
Week 15	18,516	9,098	9,919	9,978
Week 14	16,387	8,201	10,687	10,089
Week 13	11,141	10,045	9,840	11,584
Week 12	10,645	10,311	10,745	12,052
Week 11	11,019	10,987	10,927	12,133
Week 10	10,895	11,592	11,227	11,410
Week 9	10,816	12,614	11,225	12,049
Week 8	10,841	13,809	11,150	11,952
Week 7	10,944	15,354	11,271	12,031
Week 6	10,986	17,192	11,558	12,672
Week 5	11,612	18,448	11,862	13,412
Week 4	11,856	18,676	12,401	14,137
Week 3	12,990	18,042	12,776	15,804
Week 2	14,058	17,751	13,311	17,381
Week 1	12,254	10,069	12,262	14,983