More resources are needed to support suicide prevention, a leading charity has warned, after it emerged that Glasgow had the highest level of suicides in Scotland over the past five years.
Figures released by the National Records of Scotland (NRS) showed that the number of suicides in Scotland had decreased overall, with 753 recorded suicides in 2021, down from 805 in 2020 and the lowest level since 2017. Despite this the number of deaths rose in Glasgow from from 88 to 106 between 2017 and 2021.
The report also reveals that the rate of suicide in the most deprived areas in Scotland was 2.9 times as high than in the least deprived.
