Suicides (Hansard, 30 January 2002)

§ Ruth Kelly

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.

Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Chris Ruane, dated 30 January 2002: As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent question concerning the number of suicides by young people aged 15–24 years by sex and by region in (a) percentage figures and (b) total number, ranked in descending order of totals, expressed in percentage terms for the latest year for which figures are available. (30596)

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The figures requested are given in the attached tables.

Deaths from suicide¹in the age group 15–24, males by Government Office Region, England², 2000³
Number and rate per 100,000 population⁴
Government Office Region	Number of deaths	Rate per 100,000 males aged 15–24
West Midlands	53	16.0
East Midlands	40	15.5
NorthWest	64	15.0
SouthWest	39	13.5
East	37	12.0
North East	19	11.4
Yorkshire and the Humber	33	10.1
South East	46	9.8
London	39	7.7

Deaths from suicide¹in the age group 15–24, females by Government Office Region, England², 2000³
Number and rate per 100,000 population⁴
Government Office Region	Number of deaths	Rate per 100,000 females aged 15–24
South West	14	5.2
South East	22	4.9
West Midlands	13	4.2
North East	6	3.8
North West	15	3.7
East	8	2.8
Yorkshire and the Humber	8	2.6
London	11	2.3
East Midlands	3	1.2
¹International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, codes E950-E959 and E980-E989 excluding E988.8.
²Residents only.
³Data are for occurrences of death per calendar year.
⁴To facilitate comparison between areas the figures are presented as a rate per 100,000 population resident in the area, rather than as a percentage, because of small numbers of events.

Source:

Office for National Statistics