Suicide Facts
Suicide rates tend to fluctuate over time and even though they may have started to fall, they are still high and it is too early to tell if we are starting to see a significant downward trend.
The positive work needs to continue as:
- Every day around two people die from suicide in Scotland
- Around three out of four suicides are by men
- In Scotland, in 2007, there were 838 deaths that, were confirmed as, or suspected to be, suicides
- Suicide is the biggest killer of people under the age of 35 in Scotland.
