Suicide - Scottish cities

Suicide in Scottish cities

Suicide - Scottish Cities (2018)

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The total suicide rate in Glasgow is higher than the cities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Scotland as a whole, until the most recent period (2012-2016).  In the most recent period, all cities rates were higher than the national average, with Dundee with the highest total suicide rate (16.7 per 100,000 population).

Notes on data presented

In 2011, the National Records of Scotland (NRS) upgraded the software used to code causes of death to take account of updates made by the World Health Organization (WHO) to the codes for certain causes of death. As a result, there is a difference in how deaths data was coded for 2011 onwards compared to previous years, with deaths previously coded under ‘mental and behavioural disorders’ now being classed as ‘self-poisoning of undetermined intent’ and consequently as suicides. Full details on changes to the coding of causes of death between 2010 and 2011 can be found on the  NRS website.

For analysis over time (as here) the old coding rules have been used consistently.

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