Weekly deaths tables – week ending 13 December 2024

The tables containing data on deaths registered for the week ending 13 December 2024 were released at 9.30am today.

Please note: There will be no weekly deaths release on Friday 27 December. The release on 3 January 2025 will include the data for the last two weeks of 2024, completing the year.

Key points 

Date of registration

• The provisional number of total deaths registered in Northern Ireland in the week ending 13 December 2024 (week 50) was 387, 25 more than the previous week.
• The number of expected deaths for week 50 was estimated at 392 using the methodology based on mortality rates and trends. The relative number of excess deaths based on the expected deaths for week 50 was estimated at -5.
• For the week ending 13 December 2024, the number of expected deaths was estimated at 198 for males and 195 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 19 for males and -25 for females, using the current method.
• For 2024, by 13 December, 51.1 % of deaths were males and 48.9 % were females.  Almost two-thirds (64.8 %) of deaths were in the 75 years and over age group.
• From week 1 of 2024, to the week ending 13 December, there have been 17,236 deaths registered. 7,961 (46.2 %) of these took place in hospital, 2,808 (16.3 %) in care homes and 6,467 (37.5 %) at residential addresses, hospices, or other locations.

Date of death

• The provisional number of deaths occurring in the week ending 13 December (including those registered up to and including 18 December 2024) was 299. 

The tables are available from the weekly deaths webpage.

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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