evidence: In 2021, data on suicides show that there were more deaths by men in Northern Ireland aged 25 to 29 and 45 to 49, compared to other ages. For women in Northern Ireland, age groups with the most deaths were 20 to 24. [12] [...] Suicides in Northern Ireland have increased over time for both men and women between 2000 and 2014 (see Figure 5). 176 (74.3 per cent) of the total suicide deaths in 2021 were males and 61 (25.7 per cent) were females. In every year since 2001, more than 70 per cent of suicide deaths have been male. Similarly to the rest of the UK, men are three times more likely to die by suicide than women, even though women are more likely to attempt and self-harm. This figure is higher in the Republic of Ireland whereby men are four times more likely to die by suicide (Northern Ireland Assembly, 2021[19]).