Excess Deaths - change in methodology

ONS released a paper detailing a new UK-wide methodology for estimating expected deaths, which is used to calculate excess deaths, at 9.30 am on 20 February 2024. The following is an information paper summarising the change in methodology and the impact to Northern Ireland estimates. There is also an extraction of the UK dataset published by ONS, that accompanied the methodology paper, containing the Northern Ireland specific data for users convenience.