The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) publishes frequent mortality analysis for England & Wales through its . Today’s updates cover week 26 of 2024 (to 28 June 2024) and the second quarter of 2024, based on provisional England & Wales deaths data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on 10 July 2024.
The key points are:
Cobus Daneel, Chair of the CMI Mortality Projections Committee, said: “During the peak of the pandemic, we saw periods of high and volatile mortality. However, over the past five quarters, we have seen mortality rates close to all-time lows and following typical seasonal patterns.
"The overall mortality rate is dominated by older ages, which are experiencing low mortality. In contrast, mortality in the working-age population is still higher than pre-pandemic lows.
"It remains to be seen what the remainder of 2024 will bring – 2014, 2019 and 2022 all had similar mortality to 2024 in the first half of the year, but very different experience in the second half.â€
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