27th June 2018 - Suicide section update

The Suicide section of the ScotPHO website has been updated with the suicide figures for 2017. There were 680 suicides registered in Scotland in 2017, compared to 728 in 2016. Suicide rates are strongly related to deprivation level, and in 2013-17 the rate in the most deprived areas was two and a half times higher than in the least deprived. This inequality has, however, decreased over the last decade. The section includes details of the number and rate of suicides for Scotland, NHS board areas, local authority areas and for the UK overall.

See the Publication Summary (193Kb) document published on the ISD Scotland website (a lead partner in the ScotPHO collaboration) for further details.