the West Midlands Government Region : Total Deaths

Total Deaths

Data cube chart.

Year Total Deaths Expected Deaths Expected Deaths using 1951 rates
1861 40,642 Show data context 42,415 Show data context 13,199 Show data context
1881 44,699 Show data context 47,110 Show data context 16,625 Show data context
1891 53,763 Show data context 18,106 Show data context
1911 49,218 Show data context 48,035 Show data context 23,315 Show data context
1931 44,826 Show data context 44,233 Show data context 32,510 Show data context
1951 51,762 Show data context 50,193 Show data context 50,193 Show data context
1961 51,825 Show data context 58,596 Show data context
1971 53,356 Show data context 52,743 Show data context 68,530 Show data context
2011 50,130 Show data context 49,445 Show data context 120,324 Show data context
2021 62,018 Show data context 59,961 Show data context 140,858 Show data context
Date Source
1861 Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office) , 1861
1881 Registrar General, Quarterly Report (HM Stationery Office) , 1881
1891 Registrar General, Quarterly Report (HM Stationery Office) , 1891
1911 Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office) , 1911
1931 Registrar General, Statistical Review (HM Stationery Office) , 1931, Part I
1951 Registrar General, Statistical Review (HM Stationery Office) , 1951, Part I
1961 Registrar General, Statistical Review (HM Stationery Office) , 1961, Part I
1971 Registrar General, Statistical Review (HM Stationery Office) , 1971, Part I
2011 Office for National Statistics, Neighbourhood Statistics (Deaths Registered by Area of Usual Residence, UK)
2021 Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Mortality statistics - underlying cause, sex and age)

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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, the West Midlands Government Region through time | Historical Statistics on Life & Death | Total Deaths, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10204630/cube/DEATH_TOT

Date accessed: 05th June 2026