Leicestershire Modern (post-1974) County : Total Deaths

Total Deaths

Data cube chart.

Year Total Deaths Expected Deaths Expected Deaths using 1951 rates
1861 3,182 Show data context 3,673 Show data context 1,329 Show data context
1881 3,226 Show data context 3,822 Show data context 1,499 Show data context
1891 4,295 Show data context 1,602 Show data context
1911 3,226 Show data context 3,804 Show data context 1,982 Show data context
1931 3,215 Show data context 3,610 Show data context 2,702 Show data context
1951 3,814 Show data context 4,358 Show data context 4,358 Show data context
1961 4,253 Show data context 5,333 Show data context
1971 4,850 Show data context 5,224 Show data context 6,786 Show data context
2011 5,627 Show data context 6,073 Show data context 14,745 Show data context
2021 7,142 Show data context 7,761 Show data context 18,244 Show data context
Date Source
1861 - 2021 Great Britain Historical GIS Project

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nCube definition


This classification is designed to permit data from the 1801 Crop Returns to be included with data from the annual Agricultural Census from 1866 onwards. The 1801 Returns were highly simplified, and varied in what they reported from one parish to another, so in practice we can consistently identify only three individual crops (wheat, rye and potatoes) and two pairings ("Barley and Oats", and "Peas and Beans"). Everything else has to be included in "Other". The 1801 returns also provided limited geographical cov...


erage: a great many parishes were missing from the data, and some additional parish names could not be identified, matched more than one parish within the named county, or lacked information on the county they were in. Nottinghamshire is completely missing. County totals include data for parishes that could not be identified. The national total for England includes parishes with missing county information. The national total for England is also used as the total for England and Wales, to permit the web site to present comparisons with national totals, even though the 1801 returns contain no data on Wales.


How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Leicestershire Modern (post-1974) County through time | Historical Statistics on Life & Death | Total Deaths, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10142672/cube/DEATH_TOT

Date accessed: 31st July 2026