Number of deaths by year (starting April) stratified by provisional category of death with estimates of relative risk (RR) between years and proportion of excess deaths
| Measure | Comparison of deaths between 2019 and 2020 (April–March) | ||||
| 2019 | 2020 | Excess deaths | RR | P value | |
| All deaths | 3423 | 3067 | −356 (−514 to −198) | 0.90 (0.85 to 0.94) | <0.001 |
| Malignancy | 258 | 262 | 4 (−41 to 49) | 1.02 (0.86 to 1.21) | 0.861 |
| Preterm | 902 | 881 | −21 (−104 to 62) | 0.98 (0.89 to 1.07) | 0.619 |
| Intrapartum events | 166 | 191 | 25 (−12 to 62) | 1.15 (0.93 to 1.42) | 0.186 |
| Infection | 164 | 81 | −83 (−114 to −52) | 0.49 (0.38 to 0.64) | <0.001 |
| Trauma | 164 | 195 | 31 (−6 to 68) | 1.19 (0.97 to 1.46) | 0.102 |
| Road traffic accident | 54 | 62 | 8 (−13 to 29) | 1.15 (0.80–1.65) | 0.458 |
| Drowning | 19 | 25 | 6 (−7 to 19) | 1.32 (0.72–2.39) | 0.367 |
| Substance misuse | 20 | 10 | −10 (−21 to 1) | 0.50 (0.23 to 1.07) | 0.074 |
| Suicide | 109 | 120 | 11 (−19 to 41) | 1.10 (0.85 to 1.43) | 0.467 |
| SUDIC | 432 | 416 | −16 (−73 to 41) | 0.96 (0.84 to 1.10) | 0.583 |
| Underlying medical condition | 1085 | 810 | −275 (−360 to −190) | 0.75 (0.68 to 0.82) | <0.001 |
Numbers are frequency counts or RR plus 95% CI as appropriate.
Some deaths had insufficient information to assign a likely category of death.
RR derived from Negative Binomial Model (all alpha values approximating to 0).
SUDIC, sudden unexpected deaths in infancy or childhood.