People, population and community
Today's figures have been published using the new definition of alcohol-specific deaths.
In 2016, there were 7,327 alcohol-specific deaths in the UK, an age-standardised rate of 11.7 deaths per 100,000 population.
The 2016 alcohol-specific deaths rate continues to remain unchanged since 2013 in the UK, but is still higher than observed 15 years ago.
In 2016, the male alcohol-specific death rate continues to be more than double the rate among females.
For both sexes, rates of alcohol-specific deaths were highest among those aged 55 to 64 years in 2016.
Scotland remains the constituent country with the highest rate of alcohol-specific deaths in 2016; yet Scotland has also seen the largest decrease in its rates since they peaked in the early 2000s.
In England, for both sexes, alcohol-specific rates in 2016 were significantly higher in the most deprived local areas when compared to the least deprived local areas.
Average ratings of life satisfaction, feeling that the things we do in life are worthwhile and happiness have increased slightly in the UK between the years ending June 2016 and 2017. There was no change in average anxiety ratings in the UK between the years ending June 2016 and 2017.
Improvements in life satisfaction, worthwhile and happiness ratings in the UK were driven by England, the only country where average ratings across these measures improved.
People in Northern Ireland report the highest levels of personal well-being, when compared with the UK average.
This publication is the first to present a full year of personal well-being data since the EU referendum.
Weekly death figures provide provisional counts of the number of deaths registered in England and Wales in the latest weeks for which data are available. | 
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