From Public Health Scotland today:
There were 753 probable suicides registered in Scotland in 2021, which is a decrease from 805 in 2020.
https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/suicide-statistics-for-scotland/suicide-statistics-for-scotland-update-of-trends-for-the-year-2021/
This is a second fall after 833 cases in 2019.
Encouraging but still tragically far too high, I know.
BBC Scotland do report this but make sure there is an ‘ah but’ in there with:
Fall in suicides driven by fewer women dying
There was actually a fall in male suicides too.
Talking-up Scotland 
Do the data actually support the BBC conclusion that the fall is ‘largely driven by fewer women dying’? Women account for one quarter of suicides and so the impact of a reduction in women suicides can be eliminated by an increase in men suicides. But, as the data show, since c 1997 the trend for men, like that for women is down and the rate of decline for both is fairly similar.
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“Fall in suicides driven by fewer women dying”
😲
No, that is ONE interpretation of the results, the other is that there are fewer renewed TV licences in Scotland…
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