The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) publishes frequent mortality analysis for England & Wales through its mortality monitors. Today’s updates cover week 26 of 2024 (to 28 June 2024) and the second quarter of 2024, based on provisional England & Wales deaths data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on 10 July 2024.
The key points are:
Cobus Daneel, Chair of the CMI Mortality Projections Committee, said: “During the peak of the pandemic, we saw periods of high and volatile mortality. However, over the past five quarters, we have seen mortality rates close to all-time lows and following typical seasonal patterns.
"The overall mortality rate is dominated by older ages, which are experiencing low mortality. In contrast, mortality in the working-age population is still higher than pre-pandemic lows.
"It remains to be seen what the remainder of 2024 will bring – 2014, 2019 and 2022 all had similar mortality to 2024 in the first half of the year, but very different experience in the second half.”
All mortality monitor weekly updates are publicly available on the mortality monitor page.
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