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Fife's death by suicide figures for 2020
Created: 18/08/2021Data from National Records of Scotland (NRS) released on 17 August shows there were 805 deaths by suicide in Scotland in 2020, a slight decrease from 833 in 2019.
Almost three-quarters of deaths are male and the data demonstrates that existing inequalities endure. Deprivation remains a significant risk factor, with deaths three and a half times higher in our most deprived compared to least deprived communities.
Fife Health and Social Care Partnership has broken down the figures to show how many deaths by suicide there has been in Fife in 2020:
The Partnership would like to add a caveat that the advice issued by the National Leads is that data should always be considered over a 5-year average as there are always annual fluctuations.