Target 14

Measures

• Age-standardised rate (per 100,000) of First Nations suicide deaths, by sex and over time.


• Age-standardised rate (per 100,000) of non-Indigenous suicide deaths, over time.

Available by

• Sex: males, females, persons.


• Remoteness Area (AUS only): Major Cities, Inner regional, Outer regional, Remote, Very remote.

Data periods

• 2018–2022


• Time trend data: 2013–2017, 2014–2018, 2015–2019, 2016–2020, 2017–2021, 2018–2022.

Data source

ABS Causes of Death, Australia via the Productivity Commission website (PC 2023; ABS 2023b, 2023c).

Region types

Main structures: Australia (includes NSW, Qld, WA, NT only), states and territories.

Suppression

Measure based on publicly available data with no further suppression rules applied.

Notes

• Australia values comprised of states and territories that produce sub-national life expectancy estimates by Indigenous status: New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory only.


• Deaths from intentional self-harm: includes ICD-10 codes X60-X84 and Y87.0.


• Deaths are based on date of registration (not date of occurrence).


• Deaths where the Indigenous status of the person is unknown or not stated are not included.


• Rates are calculated based on ABS ERP Series B projections for 30 June of the relevant calendar year.


• Reporting of rates is only for those jurisdictions which have adequate levels of Indigenous identification (NSW, Queensland, WA, SA and the NT in line with national reporting guidelines), including the disaggregations.


• For disaggregated data, single-year estimates are subject to volatility due to small numbers. Therefore, 5-year aggregates are provided for point-in-time comparisons for jurisdictions.


• All causes of death data from 2006 onward are subject to a revisions process. Once data for a reference year are 'final', they are no longer revised. Data presented here are final for 2018 and earlier years, at the revised stage for 2019 and preliminary for 2020 and 2021.


• Remoteness Areas are defined by the Australian Statistical Geographical Standard (ASGS) and based on the Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia which uses the road distance to goods and services (such as general practitioners, hospitals and specialist care) to measure relative accessibility of regions around Australia (ABS 2023f).