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The following is a list of suicide rates by country according to data from the World Health Organization from 2008 in which a country's rank is determined by its total rate deaths officially recorded as suicides. Male and female suicide rates are out of total male population and total female population, respectively (i.e. total number of male suicides divided by total male population). The total rate of suicides is based on the total number of suicides divided by the total population rather than merely the average of the male and female suicide rates, because the gender ratio in most countries is not 1:1. Year refers to the most recent year that data was available for a particular country.
List
| Country | Males | Females | Total pop. | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Lithuania |
68.1 | 12.9 | 38.6 | 2005 |
 Belarus |
63.3 | 10.3 | 35.1 | 2003 |
 Russia |
53.9 | 9.5 | 30.1 | 2006 |
 Slovenia |
42.1 | 11.1 | 26.3 | 2006 |
 Hungary |
42.3 | 11.2 | 26.0 | 2005 |
 Kazakhstan |
45.0 | 8.1 | 25.9 | 2005 |
 Latvia |
42.0 | 9.6 | 24.5 | 2005 |
 Japan See: Suicide in Japan |
34.8 | 13.2 | 23.7 | 2006 |
 Guyana |
33.8 | 11.6 | 22.9 | 2005 |
 Ukraine |
40.9 | 7.0 | 22.6 | 2005 |
 South Korea See: Suicide in South Korea |
29.6 | 14.1 | 21.9 | 2006 |
 Sri Lanka[3] |
N/A | N/A | 21.6 | 1996 |
 Belgium |
31.2 | 11.4 | 21.1 | 1997 |
 Estonia |
35.5 | 7.3 | 20.3 | 2005 |
 Finland |
31.1 | 9.6 | 20.1 | 2005 |
 Croatia |
30.5 | 9.7 | 19.7 | 2005 |
 Serbia and Montenegro |
28.4 | 11.1 | 19.5 | 2006 |
 Hong Kong |
22.0 | 13.1 | 17.4 | 2005 |
 Moldova |
31.5 | 5.1 | 17.8 | 2006 |
 France |
26.4 | 9.2 | 17.6 | 2005 |
 Switzerland |
24.7 | 10.5 | 17.6 | 2005 |
 Poland |
27.8 | 4.6 | 15.8 | 2005 |
 Austria |
24.7 | 7.0 | 15.6 | 2006 |
 Czech Republic |
25.5 | 5.6 | 15.3 | 2005 |
 Uruguay |
24.5 | 6.4 | 15.1 | 2001 |
 People's Republic of China |
13.0 | 14.8 | 13.9 | 1999 |
 Denmark |
19.2 | 8.1 | 13.7 | 2001 |
 Seychelles[4] |
N/A | N/A | 13.2 | 1998 |
 New Zealand[5] |
20.3 | 6.5 | 13.2 | 2008 |
 Sweden |
19.5 | 7.1 | 13.3 | 2002 |
 Bulgaria |
19.7 | 6.7 | 13.0 | 2004 |
 Germany |
19.7 | 6.6 | 13.0 | 2004 |
 Trinidad and Tobago |
20.9 | 4.9 | 12.8 | 2000 |
 Slovakia |
22.3 | 3.4 | 12.6 | 2005 |
 Romania |
21.5 | 4.0 | 12.5 | 2004 |
 Cuba |
18.6 | 6.2 | 12.4 | 2004 |
 Suriname |
17.8 | 6.4 | 12.1 | 2000 |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina |
20.3 | 3.3 | 11.8 | 1991 |
 Norway |
15.7 | 7.4 | 11.6 | 2005 |
 Canada |
17.3 | 5.4 | 11.4 | 2004 |
 Iceland |
16.2 | 6.1 | 11.2 | 2005 |
 Portugal |
17.5 | 4.9 | 11.2 | 2003 |
 United States |
17.7 | 4.5 | 11.1 | 2005 |
 Luxembourg |
17.7 | 4.3 | 11.0 | 2005 |
 Australia |
17.1 | 4.7 | 10.9 | 2003 |
 India |
12.2 | 9.1 | 10.6 | 1998 |
 Chile |
17.8 | 3.1 | 10.4 | 2003 |
 Singapore |
12.9 | 7.7 | 10.3 | 2006 |
 South Africa[6] |
25.3 | 5.6 | N/A | 2005 |
 Ireland |
16.3 | 3.2 | 9.7 | 2005 |
 Netherlands |
12.7 | 6.0 | 9.4 | 2004 |
 Kyrgyzstan |
15.3 | 3.2 | 9.2 | 2005 |
 Argentina |
14.1 | 3.5 | 8.7 | 2003 |
 Turkmenistan |
13.8 | 3.5 | 8.6 | 1998 |
 Mauritius |
13.2 | 3.8 | 8.5 | 2005 |
 Zimbabwe |
10.6 | 5.2 | 7.9 | 1990 |
 Thailand |
12.0 | 3.8 | 7.8 | 2002 |
 Spain |
12.0 | 3.8 | 7.8 | 2005 |
 Saint Lucia |
10.4 | 5.0 | 7.7 | 2002 |
 Belize |
13.4 | 1.6 | 7.6 | 2001 |
 Ecuador |
10.4 | 4.0 | 7.2 | 2005 |
 Nicaragua |
11.1 | 3.3 | 7.2 | 2005 |
 Italy |
11.0 | 3.4 | 7.1 | 2003 |
 El Salvador |
10.3 | 3.5 | 6.9 | 2005 |
 Republic of Macedonia |
9.5 | 4.0 | 6.8 | 2003 |
 United Kingdom[7] |
10.4 | 3.2 | 6.8 | 2005 |
 Costa Rica |
10.6 | 1.9 | 6.3 | 2005 |
 Panama |
11.1 | 1.4 | 6.3 | 2003 |
 Israel |
10.4 | 2.1 | 6.2 | 2003 |
 Puerto Rico |
10.9 | 1.8 | 6.2 | 2002 |
 Malta |
7.0 | 4.9 | 6.0 | 2004 |
 Colombia |
8.9 | 2.6 | 5.7 | 1999 |
 Uzbekistan |
8.1 | 3.0 | 5.5 | 2003 |
 Venezuela |
8.4 | 1.8 | 5.1 | 2002 |
 Brazil |
6.8 | 1.9 | 4.3 | 2002 |
 Mexico |
7.0 | 1.4 | 4.1 | 2005 |
 Albania [8] |
4.7 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 2003 |
 The Bahamas |
6.0 | 1.3 | 3.6 | 2000 |
 Greece |
5.9 | 1.2 | 3.5 | 2006 |
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
6.8 | 0.0 | 3.4 | 2003 |
 Bahrain |
4.9 | 0.5 | 3.1 | 1988 |
 Paraguay |
4.5 | 1.6 | 3.1 | 2003 |
 Tajikistan |
2.9 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 2001 |
 Georgia |
3.4 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 2001 |
 Guatemala |
3.4 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 2003 |
 Philippines |
2.5 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 1993 |
 Kuwait |
2.5 | 1.4 | 2.0 | 2002 |
 Armenia |
3.2 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 2003 |
 Dominican Republic |
2.9 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 2001 |
 Turkey |
2.3 | 2.9 | 1.8 | 1995 [9] |
 Azerbaijan |
1.8 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 2002 |
 Peru |
1.1 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 2000 |
 São Tomé and Príncipe |
0.0 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 1987 |
 Barbados |
1.4 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 2001 |
 Iran |
0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1991 |
 Jamaica |
0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1990 |
 Syria |
0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1985 |
 Egypt |
0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1987 |
 Antigua and Barbuda |
0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1995 |
 Haiti |
0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2003 |
 Honduras |
0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1978 |
 Jordan |
0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1979 |
 Saint Kitts and Nevis |
0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1995 |
References
- ^ Suicide rate in Lithuania (WHO)
- ^ "Country reports and charts available". WHO website - Mental health. World Health Organization. 2008. http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/country_reports/en/index.html. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
- ^ Only the combined rate for both genders is available for 1996. Full statistics for both genders were last available for 1991 when the rate was men: 44.6, women: 16.8
- ^ Only the combined rate for both genders is available for 1996. Full statistics for both genders were last available for 1985 when the rate was men: 21.5, women: 3.7
- ^ http://www.socialreport.msd.govt.nz/documents/sr08-health.pdf New Zealand Government 2008 Social Report
- ^ This data is for urban areas only. There is no recent data available for the whole of South Africa Burrows, Stephanie; Lucie Laflamme (February 2006). "Suicide Mortality in South Africa". Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. http://www.springerlink.com/content/px7v1186u51k738w/. Retrieved 2009-07-05.
- ^ The suicide rate varies greatly between the different countries that make up the United Kingdom. In Scotland, which has its own health system the suicide rate is men: 24.9, women: 8.2, combined: 16.0 Scottish Public Health Observatory (see link to excel spreadsheet)
- ^ http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide_rates/en/index.html
- ^ http://lokman.cu.edu.tr/psikiyatri/derindex/kriz/1997/1/43.pdf
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