Dan Neville
Question:648 Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of deaths by suicide per 100,000 of population, per county, for 1997 to 2002, inclusive. [1295/03]
Vol. 560 No. 1
648 Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of deaths by suicide per 100,000 of population, per county, for 1997 to 2002, inclusive. [1295/03]
Data on mortality is compiled by the Central Statistics Office and published in the annual and quarterly reports on vital statistics. The latest period for which data are available is January to September 2002. These figures are set out in the following table, in addition to figures for 1997 to 2001.
County |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
January toSeptember 2002 |
Carlow |
23.8 |
11.8 |
4.7 |
4.6 |
16.0 |
8.7 |
Cavan |
20.6 |
7.4 |
7.3 |
12.7 |
16.2 |
9.5 |
Clare |
10.5 |
15.6 |
12.4 |
8.2 |
11.1 |
9.0 |
Cork |
19.3 |
17.2 |
12.2 |
15.3 |
16.2 |
16.1 |
Donegal |
13.0 |
10.6 |
10.5 |
9.6 |
8.0 |
8.7 |
Dublin |
9.8 |
10.9 |
10.9 |
10.4 |
8.8 |
8.7 |
Galway |
17.3 |
11.5 |
11.8 |
10.2 |
9.5 |
8.9 |
Kerry |
13.4 |
20.2 |
14.6 |
15.2 |
12.8 |
8.1 |
Kildare |
14.0 |
8.7 |
5.8 |
14.2 |
11.2 |
9.8 |
Kilkenny |
7.9 |
16.9 |
18.0 |
21.7 |
20.1 |
9.9 |
Laois |
9.4 |
16.7 |
9.2 |
10.9 |
16.2 |
4.5 |
Leitrim |
23.7 |
19.6 |
15.5 |
15.4 |
15.2 |
31.0 |
Limerick |
10.8 |
16.6 |
15.3 |
18.6 |
10.9 |
11.4 |
Longford |
6.6 |
9.8 |
19.3 |
9.6 |
18.9 |
12.9 |
Louth |
12.9 |
17.0 |
11.6 |
13.5 |
9.2 |
5.2 |
Mayo |
14.2 |
14.1 |
11.3 |
14.7 |
13.6 |
13.6 |
Meath |
11.7 |
9.8 |
14.2 |
9.6 |
13.9 |
11.0 |
Monaghan |
13.5 |
15.3 |
9.5 |
20.6 |
7.4 |
5.1 |
Offaly |
10.1 |
16.6 |
14.8 |
29.3 |
22.5 |
20.9 |
Roscommon |
13.4 |
13.2 |
11.2 |
11.1 |
9.1 |
7.4 |
Sligo |
5.3 |
21.1 |
10.4 |
5.4 |
10.2 |
9.2 |
Tipperary NR |
12.0 |
10.1 |
16.7 |
14.9 |
13.1 |
13.1 |
Tipperary SR |
11.8 |
18.2 |
15.4 |
14.0 |
15.1 |
16.8 |
Waterford |
18.8 |
11.4 |
11.3 |
12.1 |
11.0 |
17.1 |
Westmeath |
6.3 |
20.1 |
19.9 |
13.7 |
15.0 |
13.0 |
Wexford |
19.9 |
16.9 |
14.9 |
21.1 |
13.6 |
10.3 |
Wicklow |
13.5 |
17.2 |
16.0 |
8.1 |
6.5 |
4.6 |
Ireland |
13.1 |
13.9 |
12.2 |
12.8 |
11.7 |
10.7 |