Official Statistics

Suicide prevention profile updates

Data on suicide, associated prevalence, risk factors and service contact among groups at increased risk.

Applies to England

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Suicide prevention profile

Details

The October 2025 update includes:

  • new suicide rates for the period 2022 to 2024
  • updated rates for 2020 to 2022 and 2021 to 2023

The data is for the population aged 10 years and older (3 years pooled) presented for persons, males and females at England, region and upper tier local authority geographies.

This update is not accompanied by a statistical commentary. The latest  commentary was published in May 2024.

The suicide prevention profile has been produced to help develop understanding at a local level and support an intelligence-driven approach to suicide prevention. It provides planners, providers and stakeholders with the means to profile their area and benchmark against similar populations.

Updates to this page

Published 6 November 2018
Last updated 7 October 2025 show all updates
  1. Added new suicide rates for the period 2022 to 2024 and updated rates for 2020 to 2022 and 2021 to 2023 (for England, regions, upper and lower tier local authorities).

  2. Updated to correct the error in data for 2 indicators at ICB and NHS region geographies.

  3. Added a correction notice where an error has been identified for some indicators for ICB and NHS geographies.

  4. New age and gender specific suicide rate and updated suicide rate indicators for integrated care board and NHS region geographies; updated age and gender specific suicide rate indicator for upper tier local authorities.

  5. The suicide rate indicator has been updated for England, regions, upper and lower tier local authorities for the period 2021 to 2023.

  6. New age and gender specific suicide rates, and update of years of life lost due to suicide age-standardised rates, for England, regions and upper tier local authorities. This update is accompanied by a statistical commentary.

  7. New data for the period 2020 to 2022 and data update for the period 2012 to 2021 of suicide rate indicators for England, regions county, unitary authority and district level.

  8. New data on years of life lost due to suicide. Updated data in related risk factors domain.

  9. Updated with latest data on suicide prevention profile.

  10. Updated with latest data on suicide prevention profile.

  11. Updated with latest data on suicide prevention profile.

  12. Updated with latest data on suicide prevention profile.

  13. Updated with latest data on suicide prevention profile.

  14. Updated with latest data on suicide prevention profile.

  15. Updated with latest data on suicide prevention profile.

  16. Updated with latest data on the Suicide Prevention Profile website.

  17. First published.

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