Table C4: Drug-related deaths per 1,000 population, council areas6, annual averages for 2012 to 20161
Council area6Age-group
15 - 24225 - 3435 - 4445 - 5455 - 643Ages 15 - 64All ages4

Footnotes

  1. Calculated by dividing the average number of drug-related deaths per year over the specified 5-year period by the estimated population in the middle of the 5-year period (which is a proxy for the average population over the whole of the period).
  2. Some other tables which provide figures by age-group give the number of drug-related deaths of people who were aged under 25. However, this column's figures are for ages 15-24, inclusive, as there are very few drug-related deaths of people aged 0-14.
  3. Some other tables which provide figures by age-group give the number of drug-related deaths of people who were aged 55 and over. However, this column's figures are for ages 55-64, inclusive, as there are relatively few drug-related deaths of people aged 65 and over.
  4. Including ages 0-14 and 65+.
  5. An occasional figure for Scotland may differ slightly from the corresponding 5-year average in Table 8, because the latter was calculated simply by taking the average of the figures for Scotland for each of the five individual years (rather than by applying the method described in footnote 1 to the figures for Scotland).
  6. The alphabetical order of the councils has changed due to the adoption of the preferred forms of reference for the Edinburgh and Western Isles areas. Previous versions of this table used the forms 'Edinburgh, City of' and 'Eilean Siar'.

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Scotland50.060.240.350.200.070.180.12
Aberdeen City0.040.180.390.280.060.190.14
Aberdeenshire0.040.050.160.060.030.070.05
Angus0.050.310.220.180.030.150.10
Argyll + Bute0.060.260.130.180.080.140.09
City of Edinburgh0.040.160.360.290.120.190.14
Clackmannanshire0.000.450.580.190.060.250.17
Dumfries + Galloway0.060.230.240.090.050.120.08
Dundee City0.040.500.820.300.120.330.23
East Ayrshire0.070.380.420.210.040.220.14
East Dunbartonshire0.060.060.180.040.040.070.05
East Lothian0.050.270.230.130.020.140.09
East Renfrewshire0.000.200.210.040.030.090.05
Falkirk0.090.230.250.090.070.150.10
Fife0.060.320.330.160.020.180.12
Glasgow City0.060.210.640.480.180.310.22
Highland0.060.180.160.130.050.120.08
Inverclyde0.060.460.640.240.110.290.19
Midlothian0.100.140.180.090.130.130.09
Moray0.070.190.100.110.060.110.07
Na h-Eileanan Siar0.000.080.060.140.050.070.04
North Ayrshire0.050.280.500.210.060.210.13
North Lanarkshire0.080.310.270.140.080.180.12
Orkney Islands0.000.180.080.000.070.060.04
Perth + Kinross0.070.160.130.050.040.090.06
Renfrewshire0.070.250.450.230.070.210.15
Scottish Borders0.090.220.230.130.020.130.09
Shetland Islands0.000.070.330.000.130.110.07
South Ayrshire0.050.480.440.130.020.200.13
South Lanarkshire0.060.280.390.150.060.190.12
Stirling0.090.120.180.220.070.140.09
West Dunbartonshire0.090.320.520.210.080.240.16
West Lothian0.050.240.170.150.040.130.09