Suicide Mortality Rates for London Boroughs with Age-Standardised Rates

Directly and indirectly age-standardised suicide rates per 100,000 population for London boroughs, calculated using the European Standard Population. The dataset includes annual and three-year pooled averages for all ages and those aged 15+, broken down by sex, based on ICD-10 and ICD-9 codes for intentional self-harm and undetermined injuries. Greater London Authority provides this data, last updated on 2026-06-24, to support public health monitoring.

Use Cases

• Analyze geographic disparities in suicide rates based on borough-level data.
• Monitor temporal trends in suicide mortality using annual and three-year average rates.
• Compare suicide rates by demographic groups based on sex and age breakdowns.
• Assess the impact of public health interventions using standardised mortality ratios (SMR).

Strengths

• Rates are age-standardised using the European Standard Population as defined by WHO, enabling demographic comparisons.
• Provides both annual data and three-year pooled averages to address variability from small numbers in boroughs.
• Includes both directly standardised rates (DSR) and indirectly standardised ratios (SMR) with England as a baseline of 100.

Limitations

• Annual rates at borough level are subject to high variability due to small numbers of suicides, as noted in the description.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

Greater London Authority via uk_data platform.

Collection Method

Deaths registered in respective calendar years from intentional self-harm and undetermined injuries (ICD-10 X60-X84, Y10-Y34 exc Y33.9, ICD-9 E950-E959 and E980-E989 exc E988.8).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-24 21:09:33.853306; freshness should be verified.

Geography

London boroughs, United Kingdom.