Table 1.

Characteristics of individuals who died as a result of pharmaceutical poisoning, Australia, 2001–2013

	All persons (17,895)		Male (11,509)		Female (6386)
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Year of death
2001	1085	6.1	678	5.9	407	6.4
2002	1086	6.1	700	6.1	386	6.0
2003	1169	6.5	750	6.5	419	6.6
2004	1254	7.0	837	7.3	417	6.5
2005	1355	7.6	881	7.7	474	7.4
2006	1196	6.8	755	6.6	441	6.9
2007	1435	8.0	871	7.6	564	8.8
2008	1520	8.5	1002	8.7	518	8.1
2009	1602	9.0	1048	9.1	554	8.7
2010	1465	8.2	945	8.2	520	8.1
2011	1549	8.7	1022	8.9	527	8.3
2012	1712	9.6	1099	9.6	613	9.6
2013	1467	8.2	921	8.0	546	8.6
Age groupsa
0–19	453	2.5	300	2.6	153	2.4
20–29	3227	18.0	2398	20.8	829	13.0
30–39	4766	26.6	3409	29.6	1357	21.3
40–49	4267	23.8	2771	24.1	1496	23.4
50–59	2861	16.0	1559	13.6	1302	20.4
60–69	1230	6.9	593	5.2	637	10.0
70+	1088	6.1	476	4.1	612	9.6
Intent
Unintentional	9951	55.6	6974	60.6	2977	46.6
Intentional	5331	29.8	2966	25.8	2365	37.0
Undetermined	2534	14.2	1534	13.3	1000	15.7
Otherb	79	0.4	35	0.3	44	0.7
State
NSW	5264	29.4	3404	29.6	1860	29.1
VIC	4411	24.7	2854	24.8	1557	24.4
QLD	3289	18.9	2080	18.1	1209	18.9
SA	1374	7.7	830	7.2	544	8.5
WA	2486	13.9	1685	14.6	801	12.5
TAS	586	3.3	341	3.0	245	3.8
NT	216	1.2	161	1.4	55	0.9
ACT	269	1.5	154	1.3	115	1.8

^aThree male cases are not reported because they were missing age details

^bOther intent includes Legal Intervention, Operations of War, Civil Conflict and Acts of Terrorism, Other Specified Intent [20]