Table 1 Characteristics of individuals who died as a result of pharmaceutical poisoning, Australia, 2001–2013
From: Exploring coronial determination of intent for poisoning-related deaths in Australia, 2001–2013
All persons (17,895) | Male (11,509) | Female (6386) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | % | n | % | |
Year of death | ||||||
2001 | 1085 | 6.1 | 678 | 5.9 | 407 | 6.4 |
2002 | 1086 | 6.1 | 700 | 6.1 | 386 | 6.0 |
2003 | 1169 | 6.5 | 750 | 6.5 | 419 | 6.6 |
2004 | 1254 | 7.0 | 837 | 7.3 | 417 | 6.5 |
2005 | 1355 | 7.6 | 881 | 7.7 | 474 | 7.4 |
2006 | 1196 | 6.8 | 755 | 6.6 | 441 | 6.9 |
2007 | 1435 | 8.0 | 871 | 7.6 | 564 | 8.8 |
2008 | 1520 | 8.5 | 1002 | 8.7 | 518 | 8.1 |
2009 | 1602 | 9.0 | 1048 | 9.1 | 554 | 8.7 |
2010 | 1465 | 8.2 | 945 | 8.2 | 520 | 8.1 |
2011 | 1549 | 8.7 | 1022 | 8.9 | 527 | 8.3 |
2012 | 1712 | 9.6 | 1099 | 9.6 | 613 | 9.6 |
2013 | 1467 | 8.2 | 921 | 8.0 | 546 | 8.6 |
Age groupsa | ||||||
0–19 | 453 | 2.5 | 300 | 2.6 | 153 | 2.4 |
20–29 | 3227 | 18.0 | 2398 | 20.8 | 829 | 13.0 |
30–39 | 4766 | 26.6 | 3409 | 29.6 | 1357 | 21.3 |
40–49 | 4267 | 23.8 | 2771 | 24.1 | 1496 | 23.4 |
50–59 | 2861 | 16.0 | 1559 | 13.6 | 1302 | 20.4 |
60–69 | 1230 | 6.9 | 593 | 5.2 | 637 | 10.0 |
70+ | 1088 | 6.1 | 476 | 4.1 | 612 | 9.6 |
Intent | ||||||
Unintentional | 9951 | 55.6 | 6974 | 60.6 | 2977 | 46.6 |
Intentional | 5331 | 29.8 | 2966 | 25.8 | 2365 | 37.0 |
Undetermined | 2534 | 14.2 | 1534 | 13.3 | 1000 | 15.7 |
Otherb | 79 | 0.4 | 35 | 0.3 | 44 | 0.7 |
State | ||||||
NSW | 5264 | 29.4 | 3404 | 29.6 | 1860 | 29.1 |
VIC | 4411 | 24.7 | 2854 | 24.8 | 1557 | 24.4 |
QLD | 3289 | 18.9 | 2080 | 18.1 | 1209 | 18.9 |
SA | 1374 | 7.7 | 830 | 7.2 | 544 | 8.5 |
WA | 2486 | 13.9 | 1685 | 14.6 | 801 | 12.5 |
TAS | 586 | 3.3 | 341 | 3.0 | 245 | 3.8 |
NT | 216 | 1.2 | 161 | 1.4 | 55 | 0.9 |
ACT | 269 | 1.5 | 154 | 1.3 | 115 | 1.8 |