Part 2: Mortality
The indicators available are:
- Smoking attributable mortality (new method)
- Smoking attributable deaths from cancer (new method)
- Smoking attributable deaths from heart disease (new method)
- Smoking attributable deaths from stroke (new method)
- Mortality rate from lung cancer, all ages (1 year range)
- Mortality rate from lung cancer, all ages (3 year range)
- Mortality rate from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, all ages (1 year range)
- Mortality rate from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, all ages (3 year range)
- Mortality rate from oral cancer, all ages
- Potential years of life lost due to smoking related illness
- Stillbirth rate
- Neonatal mortality rate
The data is available broken down at England, Region, County, Unitary Authority, District, sub ICB, ICB and Region levels.
Alcohol and Drug-use Mortality Sources
Alcohol-related Mortality
OHID provides estimates for both alcohol-specific and alcohol-related deaths. Alcohol-related deaths also include diseases where only a proportion of the deaths were caused by alcohol (such as cancers of the mouth, oesophagus and liver) and so are higher than the ONS figures for alcoholic specific deaths.
Available from the Alcohol Profile with Topic filtered by "Mortality":
- Alcohol-related mortality (Persons)
- Alcohol-related mortality (Male)
- Alcohol-related mortality (Female)
- Alcohol-specific mortality
- Under 75 mortality rate from alcoholic liver disease (1 year range)
- Under 75 mortality rate from alcoholic liver disease (3 year range)
- Mortality from chronic liver disease, all ages
- Potential years of life lost (PYLL) due to alcohol-related conditions (Male)
- Potential years of life lost (PYLL) due to alcohol-related conditions (Female)
- Potential working years of life lost (PWYLL) due to alcohol-related conditions (Male)
- Potential working years of life lost (PWYLL) due to alcohol-related conditions (Female)
The data is available broken down at England, Region, County, Unitary Authority, District, ICB and Region levels.
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
The ONS provides data by sex, age, region and deprivation for alcohol-specific deaths caused by diseases known to be a direct consequence of alcohol misuse. The definition is primarily based on chronic (longer-term) conditions associated with continued misuse of alcohol and, to a lesser extent, acute (immediate) conditions.
Deaths from drug misuse
Available from the Co-occurring Substance Misuse and Mental Health Issues Profile landing page select the Topic "Mortality indicators" and the "Deaths from drug misuse" indicator with data available at England, Region, County, Unitary Authority, ICB and Region levels.
Deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) provides data on deaths related to poisoning by drug misuse in England and Wales from 1993, by cause of death, sex, age and substances involved in the death.
Death classified as drug misuse must be a drug poisoning and meet either one (or both) of the following conditions; the underlying cause is drug abuse or drug dependence, or any of the substances controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 are involved.
National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths (St George's, University of London)
The National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths (NPSAD) publish reports which analyse drug-related deaths that have occurred in a calendar year and cover trends and data on drug-related deaths including accidental or intentional deaths from prescription medications, recreational drugs such as cocaine and MDMA, deaths resulting from long-term drug use including complications as a result of intravenous heroin use, and novel psychoactive substances or ’legal highs’.
Last edited: 18 November 2025 2:54 pm