In 2018 Australia registered an average of 8 deaths by suicide per day which was two and a half times the national average deaths caused by road accidents.

But this figure is only a part of the whole story…..There are thousands more who attempt suicide:
      2016-2017 ,7% of the hospitalised injuries were due to intentional self-harm.

In 2007 it was estimated that among Australians age 16-85 ,1 in 8 (13%) has had serious thoughts about taking their own life; 1 in 25 (4.0%) made a suicide plan, and 1 in 33 (3.3%) had attempted suicide.

The Data :
     The data focuses on providing an insight to statistics from 2009-2019 on hospitalisations due to self harm.
     The data was extracted from Australia Institute of Health and welfare.

Self harm among females are higher than men.Both genders reported a sharp increases in suicide attempts in 2014-2017
     In 2018-2019 reports on males attempting suicide increased while in females decreased.

In 2009 reports of self harm among females age 0-24 were under 6000 .In 2017 it exceeded 8000!!
     This group reports the highest annual self harm attempts since 2013.

Males within age 25-44 are most at risk-
     In 2018-2019,while all females groups showed a decline , all male groups had an incline.

SEIFA Rank
     A low score indicates relatively greater disadvantage
     A high score indicates a relative lack of disadvantage or greater advantage

Lower the socio-economic rank ,higher the risk of selfharm

Individuals among the ages 25-44 are at the highest risk
     females are prominent with in this group.

Among the top 10 methods 6 are related to the use of drugs

Psychotropic drugs are the most frequent drug used for self harm

Since populations is different in each state,to compare “age standardised rate per 100,000” is used.

All states show a similar pattern ,with female rates being higher.Queensland has the highest average rate

Please do hover above the plot to observe how many attempts are reported each day among different groups

     An average of 154 individuals who are trying to take there lives each day
      98 of them are either a mother ,sister or a daughter of some one,
      56 of them are either a father ,brother or a son of some one,
It might be some one you know!!!!

Each day 8 people die by suicide while another 150 people attempt to take their lives

Help them live when they are alive.There is more to say after
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