Public Health Scotland have calculated the EASR per 100,000 population (five-year rolling averages) for 2013-2017 as 13.0 using old coding rules and 13.5 using new coding rules. For the most recent five-year period available (2016-2020), the suicide rate has increased.Public Health Scotland calculated the EASR as 13.9 using the old coding rules and 14.3 using the new coding rules.6Public Health Scotland. (2021, August 17).