Herefordshire local authority · 2022 - 24
Asthma deaths
1.5
Age-standardised asthma deaths per 100,000 per year.
Mortality rate from asthma, all ages · Persons, All ages
England: 2.1 · 2022 - 24 — Similar
healthcards · Herefordshire · 2022 - 24
What this means
The age-standardised asthma death rate in Herefordshire was 1.5 per 100,000 per year, averaged over 2022 to 2024. Asthma deaths are relatively rare but largely preventable with good treatment and review.
Source denominator: 569,610 person-years across the three-year period (Persons, All ages; not unique residents). The rate is age-standardised, not count divided by this denominator.
Fingertips comparison: Similar England. Age-standardised.
Recent observations (Herefordshire)
- 2020 - 22: 1.4
- 2022 - 24: 1.5
These points share an indicator, sex, age and period type. Source-method changes and overlapping pooled periods can limit comparisons; see the caveats.
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Source & provenance
- Indicator:
- Mortality rate from asthma, all ages (ID 93644)
- Source:
- OHID, based on Office for National Statistics mortality data
- Area:
- Herefordshire (E06000019), Upper-tier local authority (post Apr 2023)
- Period:
- 2022 - 24; retrieved 2026-10-13 (distinct from reporting period)
- Population:
- Persons, All ages
Caveats
- An annual rate pooled over three years to improve stability, not a three-year cumulative rate.
- Deaths are counted by registration; recent years can still be revised.
- Confidence interval: 0.8 to 2.7 per 100,000.
- Lower means fewer asthma deaths.
Missing or suppressed values are never shown as zero — every card above passed validation with a real numeric value.