Annual provisional suicide statistics
2014/15
A total of 564 people died by suicide in New Zealand in 2014/15
Number of people

500

540

531

541

2007/2008

2008/2009

2009/2010

564

558

547

541

529

2010/2011

2011/2012

2012/2013

2013/2014

300

100

2014/2015

Year

Suicide rates (per 100,000 population)

12.65
12.20

2007/2008

12.04

2008/2009

12.26

12.34

12.27

12.10
11.73

2009/2010

2010/2011

2011/2012

2012/2013

2013/2014

2014/2015

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 Annual provisional suicide statistics
2014/15

75% of
deaths by
suicide are
males

428 males died by suicide

136 females died by suicide

Males

The number of people who died by suicide

Females

Number of people

400

405

419

401

394

428

405

388

385

200

134

137

140

139

142

153

144

136

2007/2008

2008/2009

2009/2010

2010/2011

2011/2012

2012/2013

2013/2014

2014/2015

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 Annual provisional suicide statistics
2014/15

Suicide rates (per 100,000 population)

2007/2008

2008/2009

2009/2010

2010/2011

2011/2012

2012/2013

2013/2014

2014/2015

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 Annual provisional suicide statistics
2014/15

28 Northland

63 Waitemata

32 Bay of Plenty

48 Auckland

10 Lakes

47 Counties Manukau

49 Waikato
13 Tairawhiti

19 Taranaki

29 Hawke’s Bay

8 Whanganui

27 Mid Central

30 Capital and Coast

9 Wairarapa
16 Hutt

18 Nelson Marlborough
7 West Coast

61 Canterbury
8 South Canterbury

42 Southern
*Regions by DHB

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 Annual provisional suicide statistics
2014/15
METHOD

  65  Other poisoning
(overdose/self-poisoning)
 49  Firearms and explosives

352 deaths by suicide
were by hanging,
strangulation &
suffocation

 42  Poisoning by gases and vapours
 19  Jumping from high place
 11  Transport
 11  Submersion (drowning)
  9 Cutting and piercing instrument
  6 Fire

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