Mental health: suicide
A full description and analysis of statistics on probable suicide in Scotland is available on the ScotPHO suicide pages.
In 2022, the Scottish Government published Creating Hope Together: Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2022 to 2025.The Plan outlines priority actions for implementing the first stage of the Scottish Government and COSLA's 10-year suicide prevention plan.
Further information is also available as part of the Scottish Burden of Disease (337 KB) results and on the National Records for Scotland suicide section.
Please note: If you require the most up-to-date data available, please check the data sources directly as new data may have been published since these data pages were last updated. Although we endeavour to ensure that the data pages are kept up-to-date, there may be a time lag between new data being published and the relevant ScotPHO web pages being updated.
