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Avoidable mortality in England and Wales: 2025
ONS publishes avoidable mortality statistics for England and Wales, focusing on deaths under age 75 from causes considered treatable or preventable with timely and effective healthcare or public health interventions, including analyses by socioeconomic inequalities.
The Office for National Statistics has published updated statistics on avoidable mortality in England and Wales for 2025. The measure covers deaths of people under 75 from causes that are considered treatable or preventable, assuming timely and effective healthcare or public health interventions. The release is framed as accredited official statistics.
ONS also includes a detailed breakdown of socioeconomic inequalities in avoidable mortality. This covers annual age-standardised mortality rates by deprivation decile and quintile and by sex, alongside absolute inequality measures using the Slope Index of Inequality. By including causes considered avoidable, the release offers more granularity on where health outcomes are improving or deteriorating across different population groups.
Beyond inequality comparisons, the dataset is also provided at granular geographic levels, including estimates by local authorities, and by Integrated Care Boards and Welsh Health Boards. It also includes standardised years of life lost (SYLL). Importantly for context-setting, the release spans a long time series from 2001 to 2025.
For FX purposes, what to watch next is whether subsequent reporting links these outcomes to changes in healthcare capacity, prevention policy, and budget priorities. Those channels can gradually affect UK fiscal pressures and longer-run growth and inflation expectations, even if this particular release is not a near-term rate driver.
Why this matters for FX
While this is primarily a public-health release rather than a core macro print, it provides official measures of preventable harm and inequality in the UK. For FX traders, that matters indirectly via the long-run policy and fiscal context: trends in avoidable mortality can shape healthcare demand, productivity and the political economy of health spending, which in turn can influence UK government finances and medium-term inflation/growth expectations.