Deaths are expected to outnumber births in the UK every year from 2026, according to projections from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The UK population is now expected to grow at a slower ...

Cancer death rates in the UK have fallen by 22% over the past 50 years. However, diagnoses have risen by almost half, according to a new analysis by Cancer Research UK (CRUK). The Cancer in the UK ...

Experts say the “modest reduction” is “not cause for complacency”, with calls to redouble efforts to slash deaths further.

The UK's demographic landscape is set to change as deaths are projected to outnumber births from 2026, driven by low fertility rates and an ageing population, impacting the economy.

Death rates from breast cancer will fall in 2025 in every age group in the EU and the UK apart from in EU patients aged 80 years and older. In these older patients, overall mortality rates from the ...

Good news: cancer death rates in the UK have fallen to their lowest level on record. According to the latest statistics from Cancer Research UK, between 2022 and 2024 around 247 people per 100,000 ...

New data suggests the crisis is not just one of drinking, but of intervention arriving too late. New data taken in 2024 by the Office for National Statistics shows that 1,185 people died from ...

Northern Ireland has a bigger drinking problem than the rest of the UK after the region’s mortality rate for alcohol-specific deaths overtook Scotland ...

Deaths caused by alcohol have fallen for the first time in the UK since the covid pandemic, official figures have shown. Data released by the Office for National Statistics show that 9809 deaths from ...