"Figure 1: Age-standardised suicide rates by sex, for Great Britain, registered between 1981 and 2016","" "","" "","" "Notes","1. A common definition of suicides is used across Great Britain. See the ""Things you need to know"" section for more information. 2. Rates are expressed per 100,000 population and standardised to the 2013 European Standard Population 3 Deaths of non-residents are included in figures for Great Britain. " "Unit","Rate per 100,000 population" "","" "Year","Persons","Males","Females" "1981","14.8","19.6","10.7" "1982","14.5","19.4","10.3" "1983","14.0","19.2","9.6" "1984","14.1","19.3","9.6" "1985","14.7","20.1","9.9" "1986","14.2","20.4","8.9" "1987","13.5","19.8","8.2" "1988","14.4","21.5","8.3" "1989","12.8","19.0","7.3" "1990","13.1","20.1","6.9" "1991","12.8","19.8","6.6" "1992","12.9","20.0","6.6" "1993","12.5","19.2","6.4" "1994","12.1","18.9","6.1" "1995","12.1","19.0","6.0" "1996","11.6","18.2","5.8" "1997","11.5","17.7","5.9" "1998","12.4","19.4","6.0" "1999","12.2","19.3","5.8" "2000","11.8","18.4","5.9" "2001","11.5","17.9","5.6" "2002","11.1","17.1","5.6" "2003","11.0","16.9","5.5" "2004","11.2","17.0","5.8" "2005","10.6","16.2","5.4" "2006","10.1","15.8","4.9" "2007","9.8","15.4","4.6" "2008","10.3","16.0","4.9" "2009","10.2","15.8","4.8" "2010","9.9","15.4","4.8" "2011","10.7","16.5","5.2" "2012","10.5","16.5","4.8" "2013","10.9","17.5","4.7" "2014","10.6","16.5","5.1" "2015","10.6","16.2","5.3" "2016","10.1","15.7","4.8"