Table 2

‘Observed’, expected and excess deaths by county and sex, 2012–2019 (all ages)

		Male				Female
		‘Observed’	Expected	Excess (n)	Excess (%)	‘Observed’	Expected	Excess (n)	Excess (%)
Scotland	2012	34 741	35 560	−818	−2.4	28 168	28 019	149	0.5
	2013	34 569	34 809	−240	−0.7	27 434	27 609	−175	−0.6
	2014	33 751	34 058	−307	−0.9	26 589	27 250	−661	−2.5
	2015	35 600	33 352	2248	6.3	28 229	26 902	1327	4.7
	2016	34 642	32 676	1966	5.7	27 344	26 580	764	2.8
	2017	34 915	31 936	2978	8.5	27 683	26 185	1499	5.4
	2018	34 697	31 137	3559	10.3	27 707	25 764	1943	7.0
	2019	33 746	30 398	3347	9.9	27 115	25 397	1718	6.3
	Total 2012–2019	276 661	263 926	12 735	4.6	220 269	213 705	6564	3.0
England and Wales	2012	322 159	318 569	3590	1.1	245 470	247 532	−2062	−0.8
	2013	324 133	311 410	12 723	3.9	245 912	244 282	1630	0.7
	2014	316 467	304 536	11 932	3.8	238 820	241 309	−2489	−1.0
	2015	329 380	297 652	31 729	9.6	252 860	238 276	14 583	5.8
	2016	324 553	290 791	33 762	10.4	247 144	235 166	11 977	4.8
	2017	325 405	282 826	42 580	13.1	248 207	231 685	16 523	6.7
	2018	326 538	274 806	51 731	15.8	250 005	228 146	21 859	8.7
	2019	316 223	266 413	49 809	15.8	239 547	224 396	15 151	6.3
	Total 2012–2019	2 584 857	2 347 002	237 855	9.2	1 967 964	1 890 791	77 173	3.9

Expected deaths based on linear trend 1981–2011; excess deaths shown as percentage of observed deaths.