10 October 2024
The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) publishes frequent mortality analysis for England & Wales through its mortality monitors. Today’s updates cover week 39 of 2024 (to 27 September 2024) and the third quarter of 2024, based on provisional England & Wales deaths data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on 9 October 2024.
The key points are:
Cobus Daneel, Chair of the CMI Mortality Projections Committee, said: “Over the past eighteen months, overall mortality rates have been similar to the period immediately before the pandemic.
“However, the overall mortality rate is dominated by pensioner mortality, which is near record lows. In sharp contrast to this, mortality for younger adults is still above the ten-year average whereas we would typically expect mortality rates to fall over time.”
All mortality monitor weekly updates are publicly available on the mortality monitor page.
1. The CMI publishes mortality monitors regularly:
2. Cumulative mortality is calculated assuming that mortality in the remaining part of the year is the same as for the comparative period.
3. Since 9 September 2024 death registration reforms means that the five-day period for registering a death starts on the date that the registrar receives a signed medical certificate of cause of death from the medical examiner, or relevant notification from the coroner. Previously, deaths should legally have been registered within five days of the death occurring or the date on which a body was found (including weekends and bank holidays), unless a coroner was involved. This change may have affected registration delays in the weeks after 9 September and, therefore, the statistics covering recent weeks contained in this monitor should be treated with care.