Heart and Circulatory Disease Statistics 2021

Overview

Statistics are very important to BHF. They give our staff, volunteers and supporters a quantitative sense of the scale of heart and circulatory disease’s burden and the challenges we face in the UK.

We use a lot of statistics in our press releases, policy statements, heart health resources and throughout our website, and many of them are from our statistics compendium. This series has appeared under a variety of titles but has been published for several decades, and normally gets updated annually.

We compile the most comprehensive UK statistics on heart and circulatory disease in the UK. This edition includes analyses by Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP).

The datasets here are from reputable, official sources, and some are created from new analysis. This compendium has exclusive content and time series for UK mortality and morbidity for heart and circulatory disease at local, regional and national level and datasets for treatments, costs and risk factors. It also features international data from the respected Global Burden of Disease. Local prevalence statistics from primary care data sources are included for the first time.

First published in April 2021, with updates added where appropriate. Chapter 1 was revised in April 2022 with updated death rates.

The searchable pdf version brings the tables from all 5 chapters together in one document, along with a glossary of terms which are used in the compendium.

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