Weekly deaths tables – week ending 8 March 2024

The tables containing data on deaths registered for the week ending 8 March 2024 were released at 9.30am today.

Key points 

Date of registration

• The provisional number of total deaths registered in Northern Ireland in the week ending 8 March 2024 (week 10) was 401, 37 fewer than the previous week.
• The number of expected deaths for week 10 was estimated at 372 using the new methodology, based on mortality rates and trends, compared to 333 using the previous, 5-year average based methodology. The relative number of excess deaths based on the expected deaths for week 10 was estimated at 29 using the new method and 68 using the previous method.
• Four deaths mentioning Covid-19 on the death certificate were registered in week 10 of 2024, which is seven fewer than the previous week.  These represented 1.0% of all deaths registered in that week.
• For 2024, by 8 March, 49.0% of deaths were males and 51.0% were females.  Just over two-thirds (67.0%) of deaths were in the 75 years and over age group.
• From week 1 of 2024, to the week ending 8 March, there have been 3,907 deaths registered. 1,823 (46.7%) of these took place in hospital, 718 (18.4%) in care homes and 1,366 (35.0%) at residential addresses, hospices, or other locations.

Date of death

• The provisional number of deaths occurring in the week ending 8 March (including those registered up to and including 13 March 2024) was 288.  

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 new 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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