List of countries by suicide rate

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The following is a list of suicide rates by country according to data from the World Health Organization, in which a country's rank is determined by its total rate deaths officially recorded as suicides in the most recent available year, last updated in 2011. The WHO statistics are based on the official reports from each respective country, and therefore, no more accurate than the record-keeping in the specific country.

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.

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Suicides per 100,000 people per year[1]
Rank Country Male Female Average Year
1  Greenland[2][3] (more info) 133.6 79.2 108.1 2010[4]
1  Philippines 99,000 99,000 99,000 2013
2  Lithuania[5] (more info) 54.8 11.8 31.8 2012
3  South Korea[6] (more info) 31.7 2011
4  Guyana (more info) 26.4 2006
5  Kazakhstan (more info) 25.6 2008
6  Belarus[7][8] 22.9 2011
7  Slovenia[9] 34.6 9.4 21.8 2011
8  Hungary[10] 21.7 2009
9  Japan (more info)[11] 21.7 2012
10  Sri Lanka[12](more info) 21.6 1996
11  Ukraine (more info) 21.2 2009
12  Russia[13] (more info) 20.2 2012
13  Croatia[14] 19.7 2002
14  Serbia and Montenegro 19.5 2006
15  Latvia 18.2 2010 [15]
16  Moldova 17.4 2008
17  Belgium[note 1][10][note 2] 17[16] 2009
18  Finland[17] 16.8 2010
19  Uruguay 15.8 2004
20  South Africa[18] 15.4 2005
21  Poland 15.4 2010
22  Estonia 14.8 2010 [19]
23  France (more info) 14.7 2010 [20]
24  Suriname 14.4 2005
25 China China 13.9 2011
26  Bosnia and Herzegovina[21] 13.3 2011
27  New Zealand[22] 13.2 2008
28  Austria 12.8 2009
29  Czech Republic 12.8 2010
30  Cuba 12.3 2008
31  Bulgaria 12.3 2008
32  Romania 12.0 2009
33  United States[23] (more info) 19.5 5.5 12.0 2009
34  Sweden 11.9 2009
35  Norway 11.9 2011
36  Ireland[24] 11.4 2011
37  United Kingdom (more info) 23 11.8 2011[25]
38  Portugal[10] 11.5 2011[26]
39  Canada (more info) 17.9 5.3 11.5 2009[27]
40  Denmark 16.6 6.2 11.3 2010[28]
41  Iceland[29] 11.3 2009
42  Chile 11.2 2007
43  Switzerland 11.1 2007
44  Trinidad and Tobago 10.7 2006
45  India (more info) 10.5 2009
46  Slovakia[10] 17.4 2.8 9.9 2011
47  Germany[10] 9.9 2009
48  Australia[30] 14.9 4.4 9.7 2009
49  Kyrgyzstan 8.8 2009
50  Turkmenistan 13.8 3.5 8.6 1998
51  Netherlands [10] 12.0 5.0 8.5 2009
52  Republic of Macedonia[10] 12.6 3.9 8.0 2009
53  El Salvador 12.9 3.6 8.0 2008
54  Zimbabwe 10.6 5.2 7.9 1990
55  Luxembourg[10] 13.2 2.9 7.8 2008
56  Thailand 12.0 3.8 7.8 2002
57  Argentina 12.6 3.0 7.7 2008
58  Spain 11.9 3.4 7.6 2008
59  Singapore 4.49 2.59 3.54 2011[31]
60  Puerto Rico 13.2 2.0 7.4 2005
61  Ecuador 10.5 3.6 7.1 2009
62  Mauritius 11.8 1.9 6.8 2008
63  Iran[32] 7.6 5.1 6.4 2001
64  Italy 10.0 2.8 6.3 2007
65  Costa Rica 10.2 1.9 6.1 2009
66  Israel[33] 9.9 2.1 5.8 2007
67  Nicaragua 9.0 2.6 5.8 2006
68  Panama 9.0 1.9 5.5 2008
69  Colombia 7.9 2.0 4.9 2007
70  Brazil 7.7 2.0 4.8 2008
71  Uzbekistan 7.0 2.3 4.7 2005
72  Cambodia 4.6 2008
73  Georgia 7.1 1.7 4.3 2009
74  Albania[34] 4.7 3.3 4.0 2003
75  Mexico 6.8 1.3 4.0 2008
76  Turkey[35] 5.36 2.50 3.94 2008
77  Honduras[36] 3.84 2011
78  Bahrain 4.0 3.5 3.8 2006
79  Belize 6.6 0.7 3.7 2008
80  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 5.4 1.9 3.7 2008
81  Paraguay 5.1 2.0 3.6 2008
82  Cyprus[10] 5.9 1.3 3.6 2009
83  Guatemala 5.6 1.7 3.6 2008
84  Barbados 7.3 0.0 3.5 2006
85  Greece 6.1 1.0 3.5 2009
86  Malta 5.9 1.0 3.4 2008
87  Venezuela 5.3 1.2 3.2 2007
88  Tajikistan 2.9 2.3 2.6 2001
89  Saint Lucia 4.9 0.0 2.4 2005
90  Dominican Republic 3.9 0.7 2.3 2005
92  Armenia 2.8 1.1 1.9 2008
93  Kuwait 1.9 1.7 1.8 2009
94  The Bahamas 1.9 0.6 1.2 2005
95  Jordan 0.0 0.0 1.1 2009
96  Peru 1.1 0.6 0.9 2000
97  São Tomé and Príncipe 0.0 1.8 0.9 1987
98  Pakistan [37] 3.4 0.5 0.88 2012
99  Azerbaijan 1.0 0.3 0.6 2007
100  Maldives 0.7 0.0 0.3 2005
101  Jamaica 0.3 0.0 0.1 1990
102  Syria 0.2 0.0 0.1 1985
103  Egypt 0.1 0.0 0.1 2009
104  Grenada 0.0 0.0 0.0 2008
105  Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0 0.0 0.0 1995
106  Antigua and Barbuda 0.0 0.0 0.0 1995
107  Haiti 0.0 0.0 0 2003

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Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Recently released figures by official Belgian authorities suggest a considerably higher rate of 17.0 persons (total) per 100,000 people per annum in 2009 (5,712 cases in a population of 10,749,000 (=10,666,866 as of 1 January 2008 increasing by 0,77% per annum.) as of 1st January 2009)."Toenemend aantal zelfdodingen in Belgie". 2011. 
  2. ^ The number of death in Belgium in 2008 due to suicide "zichzelf schade toebrengen" was reported at 2000 out of a total of 103.760 death. These death comprise 1453 men and 547 women. This puts the suicide rate at about 19 per 100.000. See statbel: http://statbel.fgov.be/nl/binaries/NL%20-%20Tableau%201%2E3_T_2008_tcm325-168456.pdf

References [edit]

  1. ^ Unless otherwise stated all statistics are from WHO: "Suicide rates per 100,000 by country, year and sex (Table)". World Health Organization. 2011. Retrieved 2012-01-26. 
  2. ^ "The Suicide Capital of the World". Retrieved 13 March 2013. 
  3. ^ "Rising suicide rate baffles Greenland". Retrieved 13 March 2013. 
  4. ^ "Statistics Greenland". 
  5. ^ "Savižudybių statistika;". Valstybinis psichikos sveikatos centras. Retrieved 2011-10-01. 
  6. ^ "Causes of Death Statistics in 2011" (PDF). Statistics Korea. 2011. Retrieved 2013-05-03. 
  7. ^ "WHO/Europe". Who.int. Retrieved 2011-01-26.  Text " Facts and figures(for 2010); " ignored (help)
  8. ^ "The number of suicides in Belarus decreased by 10% (for 2011);". naviny.by. 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2013-04-30. 
  9. ^ Unless otherwise stated all statistics are from WHO: "Suicide rates per 100,000 by country, year and sex (Table)". Statistični urad Republike Slovenije. 2011. Retrieved 2012-01-26. 
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Death Due To Suicide". Eurostat. European Commission. 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-10. 
  11. ^ "Nikkei; LEAD: No. Of Suicides Falls Below 30,000 For 1st Time In 15 Years". Nikkei. 2013-01-17. Retrieved 2013-01-17. 
  12. ^ 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
  13. ^ "Rosstat". Rosstat. 2013-02-02. Retrieved 2013-02-02. 
  14. ^ Hrvatski zavod za zdravstvo. "MENTALNE BOLESTI I POREME ĆAJI U REPUBLICI HRVATSKOJ". Statistika HZZJ. Zagreb. Retrieved 4 December 2012. 
  15. ^ http://www.stat.ee/57205
  16. ^ Eurostat
  17. ^ "Causes of death, Statistics Finland" (PDF). 2011-12-16. 
  18. ^ This data is for urban areas only. Burrows, Stephanie; Lucie Laflamme (February 2006). "Suicide Mortality in South Africa". Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.  http://www.springerlink.com/content/px7v1186u51k738w The data available for the whole of South Africa in 2007 are: men 1.4, women 0.4, total 0.9 (source: WHO)
  19. ^ http://www.stat.ee/57205
  20. ^ http://www.stat.ee/57205
  21. ^ SRNA (16.04.2012). "BiH: Prošle godine ubilo se 507 lica, od čega 16 maloletnika". SRNA. Retrieved 4 December 2012. 
  22. ^ "New Zealand Government 2008 Social Report" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-09-30. 
  23. ^ "National Vital Statistics Reports, vol. 60.". 
  24. ^ http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0711/328736-recorded-suicides-rose-7-last-year-cso/
  25. ^ "UK suicide rate rises 'significantly' in 2011". 
  26. ^ "Crise aumenta número de suicídios em Portugal" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2013-02-10. 
  27. ^ "Suicides and suicide rate, by sex and by age group, Canada". 
  28. ^ "Center for Selvmordsforskning, statistikbank". 
  29. ^ "36 died from own hand". Hagstofa Íslands/Statistical Bureau of Iceland. Morgunblaðið. 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-21. 
  30. ^ Overview of suicide in Australia. Response Ability. 2009.
  31. ^ Samaritians of Singapore. "Suicide Statistics in Singapore". 
  32. ^ "A guide for the adults psychiatric illness care (To the doctors)". Ministry of Health and Medical Education. 2001. p. 88. Retrieved 2008.  behdasht.gov.ir
  33. ^ "Microsoft Word - suicides07-1.doc" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-09-30. 
  34. ^ "WHO | Suicide rates per 100,000 by country, year and sex (Table)". Who.int. 2009-12-07. Retrieved 2010-09-30. 
  35. ^ "Türkiye'nin intihar analizi / Türkiye / Radikal İnternet". Radikal.com.tr. Retrieved 2010-09-30. 
  36. ^ "Mortalidad y otros (Mortality and others)". IUDPAS. 2011-03-01. Retrieved 2013-01-22. 
  37. ^ "Suicide trends in rich and poor countries". Daily Times. 2010-09-28. Retrieved 2011-07-29. 

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