Death rates
Explore death rates and numbers of people dying from heart and circulatory diseases across the UK.
Incidence and prevalence
See the numbers of people living with heart and circulatory diseases, as well as the burden that these individuals experience due to having these diseases.
Treatment
Heart and circulatory treatment data, including number of heart transplants carried out each year, surgical procedures and medications prescribed across the UK.
Costs
Explore the financial costs related to heart and circulatory diseases in the European region.
About our data visualisations
To help people to better understand the key messages behind our heart and circulatory disease data, we have created interactive data visualisations to bring our annual stats to life.
More information and frequently asked questions
Heart statistics broken down
We collect the most comprehensive statistics on the effects, prevention, treatment, costs and causes of heart and circulatory diseases in the UK.
We ensure the highest quality data
Statistics are very important to the 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 at least once a year.
We aim to compile the most comprehensive UK statistics on heart and circulatory disease in the UK. The datasets here are from reputable, official sources, and some are created from new analysis, including comorbidities. This compendium has exclusive content 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. Time series are included for many indicators.
The Excel spreadsheets here include tables, charts and graphs for each statistical theme – mortality, morbidity, treatments, costs and risk factors.
The searchable pdf version brings the tables from all five chapters together in one document, along with a glossary of terms which are used in the compendium.
Downloads
Please note that for technical reasons we are unable to update these pages, so these data visualisations do not reflect the latest compendium content.
2023 Statistics Compendium (Tables) (pdf)
Chapter One - Mortality (Excel)
Chapter Two - Morbidity (Excel)
Chapter Three - Treatments (Excel)
Chapter Four - Costs (Excel)
Chapter Five - Risk Factors (Excel)
For additional statistics please consult our factsheets.
Our current health statistics resources
All content is referenced but please contact us with any queries.