Weekly deaths tables – up to week ending 3 January 2025

The tables containing data on deaths registered for the weeks up to week ending 3 January 2025 were released at 9.30am today.

It should be noted that the total number of registrations completed in week 1 may have been impacted by office closures during the Christmas and new year holidays.

Key points 

Date of registration

• The provisional number of total deaths registered in Northern Ireland in the week ending 3 January (week 1) was 416.
• The number of expected deaths for week 1 was estimated at 431, using the methodology based on mortality rates and trends. The relative number of excess deaths based on the expected deaths for week 1 was estimated at -15.
• For 2025, by 3 January, 51.7 % of deaths were males and 48.3 % were females.  Over two-thirds (69.7 %) of deaths were in the 75 years and over age group.
• In week 1 of 2025, there have been 416 deaths registered. 194 (46.6 %) of these took place in hospital, 81 (19.5 %) in care homes and 141 (33.9 %) at residential addresses, hospices, or other locations.

Date of death

• The provisional number of deaths occurring in the week ending 3 January (including those registered up to and including 8 January 2025) was 344. 

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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