Suicide Prevention in Australia in The 2000s
The latest 'Causes of Death Report' released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows a greater number of deaths by suicide for 2010 than previous years.
The 2010 report recorded 2,361 deaths by suicide, an increase of 480 deaths from 2007 – a useful baseline year when revised methods in data collection were adopted by the ABS.
While Australia's suicide rate of 10.5 per 100,000 is relatively low by world standards, closer examination of the data shows male suicides account for around three quarters of these deaths, and that the male suicide rate peaks at 27.7 per 100,000 in the age group 40–44 years.
There statistics show a significant over representation of suicide in GBLTI and Indigenous Australians, as well as in rural and remote Australians.
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