Table 1.

Suicide and Undetermined Deaths in Scotland 1981 – 1999 By Gender and Time Period Rate per Million Population

	1981 to 1985		1986 to 1990		1991 to 1995		1996 to 1999
Gender	No. of deaths	Rate/million	No. of deaths	Rate/million	No. of deaths	Rate/million	No. of deaths	Rate/million	% change from first to last time period
Males	2324	187	2,587	210	2,948	238	2,506	252	35%
Females	1180	88	1,030	78	1,058	80	869	82	-7%
Total	3,504	136	3,617	142	4,006	156	3,375	165	21%