, compared with 689,629 in the previous year, which was the most deaths in a single year since 1918, when there were 715,000. Although the
fell from 10.4 deaths per 1,000 people in 2000 to 8.7 in 2011, it has increased in the intervening years, and reached a rate of 10.3 by 2020. Hospitals are the most common
COVID-19 in the UK
Between January 2019 and November 2023, the
month with the most deaths in England and Wales was April 2020, which saw over 88,000 deaths recorded, almost double the number of deaths in April 2019, and 14,800 more than recorded in January 2021, the second-deadliest month in this time period. This tragic figure was due to the
Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which first hit the UK in late January 2020. Although the UK had some respite from the virus initially, the number of cases began to rise dramatically by March 2020, resulting in a lockdown in large parts of UK society. The subsequent social distancing that took place certainly helped the National Health Service (NHS) prevent an even bigger disaster, but the virus had already taken hold. From the last week of March onwards, the
weekly number of deaths in England and Wales started to exceed the corresponding weeks between 2014 and 2019, at first by 1,000, then by 6,000, and by 8,000. Between April 10 and April 24, there were over 23,000
excess deaths in England and Wales, or almost 12,000 excess deaths per week. By the week ending on June 19, 2020, the number of excess deaths in England and Wales finally dropped below the five-year average, an important milestone in the fight against the virus.
Funeral costs
The
average cost of dying in the United Kingdom in 2023 was approximately 9,658 British pounds, an increase of around 2,960 pounds when compared with 2008. In terms of 'send-off' costs,
by category, around 1,037 pounds is spent on the memorial, with other costs including catering, at 476 pounds, and flowers, at 220 pounds, among many other expenses. Like with many other services in the UK, a funeral is
more expensive in London with average funeral costs in the capital just over 1,000 pounds more expensive than the rest of the country. As for the the
workforce that is responsible for providing these services, such as undertakers, mortuary assistants and crematorium assistants, there were approximately 21,900 in the third quarter of 2023, compared with around 25,300 a year earlier.
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