Standing view · health · Exeter
improving, held with established confidence, formed on 31 August 2026 from movements in 2025.
Deaths before the age of 75 in Exeter rose to 370.41 per 100,000 residents in 2024, then fell to 296.24 in 2025. The suicide rate rose to 15.87 per 100,000 over the three years to 2023. The fall in early deaths is the most recent movement and the largest, but the earlier reading of the same measure and the suicide rate both went the other way, so two of the three readings published here are unfavourable and only the latest is not.
A view is formed only where the evidence names a figure you can check. Each movement listed as a reason had to be large enough to matter and distinctive in at least one way — unusual against this area's own history, unusual against comparable areas, or sustained over several periods. A movement shared with peers counts for less, because it says something about the country rather than about Exeter. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Suicide rate, per 100,000 | 2021 - 23 | deteriorating |
| Deaths before age 75, per 100,000 | 2024 | deteriorating |
| Deaths before age 75, per 100,000 | 2025 | improving |