Suicide accounts for a quarter of injury-related deaths in Victoria, new figures show.
A total of 7814 Victorians died as a result of injuries between 2014 and 2016, of which 1948 or 24.9 per cent were suicides.
Falls were the leading cause of injury-related death in the state during this period, making up 37.6 per cent of the total, according to preliminary data from the Victorian Injury Surveillance Unit at Monash University.
There were 2936 falls resulting in death in Victoria during the two-year period, the figures show, 2805 of which were among people aged more than 65.
Almost three quarters (72.3 per cent) of injury deaths in this age group were the result of falls.
Among Victorians aged 15 to 24 years old, there were 509 deaths as a result of injury.
Almost half of these (47.9 per cent) were suicides and less than a third (31 per cent) were transport-related deaths.
Of the 3333 injury deaths involving adults aged 25 to 64 years old, 41.9 per cent were suicides.
Transport accounted for 12.5 per cent of all injury deaths in Victoria between 2014 and 2016, while unintentional poisoning from alcohol and drugs made up 12.3 per cent.
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