"Figure 4: Age-standardised suicide rates for the UK, constituent countries and English regions, for persons registered in 2016 (with 95% confidence intervals) ","" "","" "","" "Notes","1. The National Statistics definition of suicide is given in ""Things you need to know about this release"" section of the UK Suicide bulletin. 2. Figures are for persons aged 10 years and over. 3. Age-standardised suicide rates per 100,000 population, standardised to the 2013 European Standard Population. Age-standardised rates are used to allow comparison between populations which may contain different proportions of people of different ages. 4. The lower and upper confidence limits have been provided. These form a confidence interval, which is a measure of the statistical precision of an estimate and shows the range of uncertainty around the estimated figure. Calculations based on small numbers of events are often subject to random fluctuations. As a general rule, if the confidence interval around one figure overlaps with the interval around another, we cannot say with certainty that there is more than a chance difference between the two figures. 5. Figures are for persons usually resident in each area, based on boundaries as of May 2017. 6. Figures are for deaths registered, rather than deaths occurring in each calendar year. Due to the length of time it takes to complete a coroner’s inquest, it can take months or even years for a suicide to be registered. More details can be found in the ""Registration delays"" section of the UK Suicide bulletin. " "Unit","Rate per 100,000 population" "","" "Area","Rate","LCL","UCL" "Northern Ireland","18.1","16.0","20.2" "Scotland","15.0","13.9","16.1" "Wales","11.8","10.5","13.1" "South West","11.2","10.3","12.2" "North East","10.6","9.2","11.9" "North West","10.5","9.7","11.3" "UK","10.4","10.1","10.6" "Yorkshire and The Humber","9.9","9.0","10.8" "East of England","9.8","9.0","10.7" "South East","9.6","8.9","10.2" "England","9.5","9.2","9.7" "West Midlands","8.9","8.1","9.7" "East Midlands","8.4","7.6","9.3" "London","7.8","7.1","8.5"