How do suicide rates vary among PHN areas?
In 2022:
- Age-standardised rates and numbers of deaths by suicide varied across PHN areas, ranging from 7.4 deaths per 100,000 population in Northern Sydney PHN area to 20.1 in the NT Northern Territory PHN area.
- The greatest number of deaths by suicide occurred in the North Western Melbourne PHN (190).
Data are not published for PHN areas where there are small numbers of deaths by suicide due to privacy and confidentiality concerns or other concerns about the quality of the data (for example, age-standardised rates cannot be published for Western Queensland for most years).