Table 1.
Changes in age-standardised rates of ‘deaths of despair’ mortality 2019–2021.
| Country | Sex | Cause | Age-standardised deaths per 100,000 |
Change 2019–2021 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | Absolute | Relative | |||
| England and Wales | Male | Alcohol | 20.1 | 22.8 | 24.0 | 3.9 | 19.6% |
| Drugs | 10.0 | 10.5 | 11.0 | 1.0 | 9.9% | ||
| Suicide | 14.2 | 13.5 | 14.2 | 0.0 | 0.1% | ||
| Female | Alcohol | 10.4 | 12.1 | 12.9 | 2.5 | 24.1% | |
| Drugs | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 0.3 | 7.8% | ||
| Suicide | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 0.6 | 14.0% | ||
| Northern Ireland | Male | Alcohol | 27.0 | 31.1 | 29.6 | 2.7 | 9.9% |
| Drugs | 13.8 | 15.8 | 15.8 | 2.0 | 14.3% | ||
| Suicide | 17.9 | 19.1 | 20.0 | 2.1 | 11.7% | ||
| Female | Alcohol | 16.1 | 17.5 | 17.4 | 1.4 | 8.4% | |
| Drugs | 4.8 | 5.8 | 5.5 | 0.7 | 15.0% | ||
| Suicide | 5.1 | 6.9 | 6.8 | 1.7 | 33.8% | ||
| Scotland | Male | Alcohol | 30.0 | 36.0 | 37.1 | 7.1 | 23.7% |
| Drugs | 38.8 | 41.5 | 39.8 | 1.0 | 2.5% | ||
| Suicide | 21.9 | 20.9 | 22.2 | 0.2 | 1.0% | ||
| Female | Alcohol | 16.3 | 15.7 | 18.1 | 1.8 | 10.9% | |
| Drugs | 16.3 | 14.9 | 15.9 | −0.4 | −2.6% | ||
| Suicide | 6.8 | 7.5 | 6.8 | 0.0 | −0.1% | ||
| USA | Male | Alcohol | 29.4 | 34.7 | 37.3 | 7.9 | 26.7% |
| Drugs | 33.5 | 44.4 | 51.6 | 18.1 | 54.1% | ||
| Suicide | 26.9 | 26.0 | 27.1 | 0.2 | 0.7% | ||
| Female | Alcohol | 13.6 | 16.2 | 17.6 | 4.0 | 29.1% | |
| Drugs | 14.4 | 18.3 | 21.2 | 6.9 | 47.9% | ||
| Suicide | 6.7 | 6.1 | 6.3 | −0.3 | −5.2% | ||