Table 1. Counts of deaths and attempts for year, jurisdiction and method categories and lethality for the same categories.* .
| Deaths | Attempts | Lethality# | |
| Characteristic | |||
| Year | |||
| 1994 | 2,287 | 16,797 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 2,366 | 19,564 | 10.8 |
| 1996 | 2,426 | 21,637 | 10.1 |
| 1997 | 2,647 | 22,347 | 10.6 |
| 1998 | 2,639 | 25,853 | 9.3 |
| 1999 | 2,490 | 26,239 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 2,392 | 27,253 | 8.1 |
| 2001 | 2,468 | 29,847 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 2,326 | 30,492 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 2,162 | 30,502 | 6.6 |
| 2004 | 2,118 | 31,299 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 2,062 | 32,536 | 6.0 |
| 2006 | 1,771 | 32,307 | 5.2 |
| 2007 | 1,787 | 32,304 | 5.2 |
| Jurisdiction | |||
| New South Wales | 10,047 | 124,633 | 7.5 |
| Victoria | 7,363 | 86,246 | 7.9 |
| Queensland | 6,640 | 73,769 | 8.3 |
| Western Australia | 3,251 | 44,461 | 6.8 |
| South Australia | 2,659 | 31,307 | 7.8 |
| ACT, Northern Territory, Tasmania | 1,981 | 18,561 | 9.6 |
| Method † | |||
| Hanging | 13,493 | 9,322 | 59.1 |
| Motor vehicle exhaust | 6,120 | 7,500 | 44.9 |
| Poisoning | 4,216 | 288,160 | 1.4 |
| Firearms | 3,490 | 1,215 | 74.2 |
| All other methods | 4,622 | 72,780 | 6.0 |
*
Due to AIHW suppression rules in the data provided for this study, the figures presented omit attempt and death counts for motor vehicle exhaust and firearms in Western Australia and South Australia in 2006 and 2007.
#
Lethality = deaths/(deaths + attempts) * 100
†
Categories based on coding of deaths and hospital separations according to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (versions 9 and 10): poisoning (E950, X60–X66, X68, X69); motor vehicle exhaust (E951, E952, X67); hanging (E953, X70); firearms (E955, X72–X75); all other methods (E954, E956–E959, X71, X76–X84)