The average for 2019 based on 41 countries was 12.93 suicides per 100,000 people. The highest value was in Lithuania: 26.1 suicides per 100,000 people and the lowest value was in Turkey: 2.4 suicides per 100,000 people. The indicator is available from 2000 to 2019. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

This statistic displays the suicide rate among young people in selected European countries in 2016. In this year, Finland had the highest suicide rate for people aged 20 to 24 years, with a rate of ***** per 100,000 age-specific population.

In the three-year period between 2015 and 2017, the teenage suicide rate was ** per 100,000 in Lithuania. Furthermore, in Estonia the rate was ** suicides per 100,000, while Norway, Finland, and Ireland all had high rates of teenage suicides at * per 100,000.

Historical chart and dataset showing European Union suicide rate by year from 2000 to 2021.

South Korea currently has the highest overall suicide rate among OECD countries worldwide. The suicide rate among women in South Korea is significantly higher than that of women in any other country. Nevertheless, suicide is commonly more prevalent among men than women. Suicide in the U.S. The suicide rate in the United States has risen since the year 2000. As of 2022, there were around **** deaths from suicide per 100,000 population. The suicide rate among men in the U.S. is over ***** times what it is for females, a considerable and troubling difference. The suicide rate among men increases with age, with the highest rates found among men aged 75 years and older. Adolescent suicide Adolescent suicide is always a serious and difficult topic. A recent survey found that around ** percent of female high school students in the United States had seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, compared to ** percent of male students. On average, there are around ** suicide deaths among adolescents per 100,000 population in the United States. The states with the highest rates of adolescent suicide include New Mexico, Idaho, and Oklahoma.

BackgroundIn Europe, men have lower rates of attempted suicide compared to women and at the same time a higher rate of completed suicides, indicating major gender differences in lethality of suicidal behaviour. The aim of this study was to analyse the extent to which these gender differences in lethality can be explained by factors such as choice of more lethal methods or lethality differences within the same suicide method or age. In addition, we explored gender differences in the intentionality of suicide attempts.Methods and FindingsMethods. Design: Epidemiological study using a combination of self-report and official data. Setting: Mental health care services in four European countries: Germany, Hungary, Ireland, and Portugal. Data basis: Completed suicides derived from official statistics for each country (767 acts, 74.4% male) and assessed suicide attempts excluding habitual intentional self-harm (8,175 acts, 43.2% male).Main Outcome Measures and Data Analysis. We collected data on suicidal acts in eight regions of four European countries participating in the EU-funded “OSPI-Europe”-project (www.ospi-europe.com). We calculated method-specific lethality using the number of completed suicides per method * 100 / (number of completed suicides per method + number of attempted suicides per method). We tested gender differences in the distribution of suicidal acts for significance by using the χ2-test for two-by-two tables. We assessed the effect sizes with phi coefficients (φ). We identified predictors of lethality with a binary logistic regression analysis. Poisson regression analysis examined the contribution of choice of methods and method-specific lethality to gender differences in the lethality of suicidal acts.Findings Main ResultsSuicidal acts (fatal and non-fatal) were 3.4 times more lethal in men than in women (lethality 13.91% (regarding 4106 suicidal acts) versus 4.05% (regarding 4836 suicidal acts)), the difference being significant for the methods hanging, jumping, moving objects, sharp objects and poisoning by substances other than drugs. Median age at time of suicidal behaviour (35–44 years) did not differ between males and females. The overall gender difference in lethality of suicidal behaviour was explained by males choosing more lethal suicide methods (odds ratio (OR) = 2.03; 95% CI = 1.65 to 2.50; p < 0.000001) and additionally, but to a lesser degree, by a higher lethality of suicidal acts for males even within the same method (OR = 1.64; 95% CI = 1.32 to 2.02; p = 0.000005). Results of a regression analysis revealed neither age nor country differences were significant predictors for gender differences in the lethality of suicidal acts. The proportion of serious suicide attempts among all non-fatal suicidal acts with known intentionality (NFSAi) was significantly higher in men (57.1%; 1,207 of 2,115 NFSAi) than in women (48.6%; 1,508 of 3,100 NFSAi) (χ2 = 35.74; p < 0.000001).Main limitations of the studyDue to restrictive data security regulations to ensure anonymity in Ireland, specific ages could not be provided because of the relatively low absolute numbers of suicide in the Irish intervention and control region. Therefore, analyses of the interaction between gender and age could only be conducted for three of the four countries. Attempted suicides were assessed for patients presenting to emergency departments or treated in hospitals. An unknown rate of attempted suicides remained undetected. This may have caused an overestimation of the lethality of certain methods. Moreover, the detection of attempted suicides and the registration of completed suicides might have differed across the four countries. Some suicides might be hidden and misclassified as undetermined deaths.ConclusionsMen more often used highly lethal methods in suicidal behaviour, but there was also a higher method-specific lethality which together explained the large gender differences in the lethality of suicidal acts. Gender differences in the lethality of suicidal acts were fairly consistent across all four European countries examined. Males and females did not differ in age at time of suicidal behaviour. Suicide attempts by males were rated as being more serious independent of the method used, with the exceptions of attempted hanging, suggesting gender differences in intentionality associated with suicidal behaviour. These findings contribute to understanding of the spectrum of reasons for gender differences in the lethality of suicidal behaviour and should inform the development of gender specific strategies for suicide prevention.

In 2017, there were over *** thousand deaths by suicide in the European Union among men aged between 45 and 54 years, the highest of any demographic shown. Among all age groups, the number of suicides was higher among men compared to women.

This horizontal bar chart displays suicide mortality rate (per 100,000 population) by countries using the aggregation average, weighted by population in Europe. The data is about countries.

In 2016, Belgium was in the top five European countries for its number of suicide casualties. That year, the country held the fifth position behind Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia, and Hungary. From 2006 to 2020, the number of committed suicides was relatively stable, fluctuating between 1,700 to 2,000 per year. The number of deaths reached a peak in 2011 with 2.084 casualties.

Gender and regional differences

Globally, suicide rates are significantly higher in the male population. Belgium is no exception, from 2006 to 2016, more than double the amount of men committed suicide compared to women. A suicide paradox is often referred to when talking about gender differences. While women have generally more suicidal thoughts than men, men tend to commit suicide more frequently.

From a regional perspective, there were more casualties in the Flemish region than in the Walloon region in 2016. However, the region of Brussels registered the least casualties. That being said, the number of inhabitants of Belgium’s regions put these figures into perspective. In 2019, the Flemish region had more inhabitants than Wallonia and even more than the Brussels-Capital Region.

Euthanasia and assisted suicide in Europe

In Europe, Belgium is one of the fewer countries where euthanasia is legal under certain circumstances. Other European countries who practiced euthanasia in 2016 were Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Euthanasia differs from assisted suicide which is legal in Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands. The main difference relies on who does the act, in the case of assisted suicide, it is the patient. Nonetheless, suicide hotlines and help websites are available for people in distress 24/7.

suicide rate for 2019 was 14.72, a 6.13% decline from 2018.

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<li> suicide rate for 2018 was <strong>15.68</strong>, a <strong>1.66% decline</strong> from 2017.</li>
<li> suicide rate for 2017 was <strong>15.95</strong>, a <strong>8.09% decline</strong> from 2016.</li>
<li> suicide rate for 2016 was <strong>17.35</strong>, a <strong>4.08% decline</strong> from 2015.</li>
</ul>Suicide mortality rate is the number of suicide deaths in a year per 100,000 population. Crude suicide rate (not age-adjusted).

Table of directly (DSR) age-standardised rates of suicides per 100,000 population, and Indirectly (SMR) (Includes undetermined Injuries), all ages and age 15 plus, three year (pooled) average and annual, by sex.

Deaths from intentional self-harm and injury undetermined whether accidentally or purposely inflicted (ICD-10 X60-X84, Y10-Y34 exc Y33.9, ICD-9 E950-E959 and E980-E989 exc E988.8), registered in the respective calendar year(s).

DSR stands for Directly age-Standardised Rates.

Mortality rates are age standardised using the European Standard Population as defined by the World Health Organisation.

3 year average rates are calculated as the average of single year rates for 3 successive years.

Standardised Mortality Ratio (SMR), England = 100.

The annual rates at borough level are likely to be subject to relatively high levels of variability of numbers of suicides from year to year because of the relatively small numebrs of suicides that occur within boroughs. When comparing boroughs against each other, the three-year combined rate would provide a higher level of confidence.

NHS mental health information can be found here.

Various other suicide indicators are available from IC NHS website, including years of life lost, crude death rates, and indirectly standardised ratios (SMR). Follow: Compendium of population health indicators > Illness and Condition > Mental health and behavioural disorders

This horizontal bar chart displays suicide mortality rate (per 100,000 population) by title of the political leader using the aggregation average, weighted by population in Europe. The data is about countries.

BackgroundPeople in late adulthood die by suicide at the highest rate worldwide. However, there are still no tools to help predict the risk of death from suicide in old age. Here, we leveraged the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) prospective dataset to train and test a machine learning model to identify predictors for suicide in late life.MethodsOf more than 16,000 deaths recorded, 74 were suicides. We matched 73 individuals who died by suicide with people who died by accident, according to sex (28.8% female in the total sample), age at death (67 ± 16.4 years), suicidal ideation (measured with the EURO-D scale), and the number of chronic illnesses. A random forest algorithm was trained on demographic data, physical health, depression, and cognitive functioning to extract essential variables for predicting death from suicide and then tested on the test set.ResultsThe random forest algorithm had an accuracy of 79% (95% CI 0.60-0.92, p = 0.002), a sensitivity of.80, and a specificity of.78. Among the variables contributing to the model performance, the three most important factors were how long the participant was ill before death, the frequency of contact with the next of kin and the number of offspring still alive.ConclusionsProspective clinical and social information can predict death from suicide with good accuracy in late adulthood. Most of the variables that surfaced as risk factors can be attributed to the construct of social connectedness, which has been shown to play a decisive role in suicide in late life.

Death rate of a population adjusted to a standard age distribution. As most causes of death vary significantly with people's age and sex, the use of standardised death rates improves comparability over time and between countries, as they aim at measuring death rates independently of different age structures of populations. The standardised death rates used here are calculated on the basis of a standard European population (defined by the World Health Organization). Detailed data for 65 causes of death are available in the database (under the heading 'Data').

Death by suicide is a major public health problem. People living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV) have higher risk of suicidal behavior than the general population. The aim of this review is to summarize suicidal behavior, associated risk factors, and risk populations among PLHIV. Research studies in six databases from January 1, 1988, to July 8, 2021, were searched using keywords that included “HIV,” “suicide,” and “risk factors.” The study design, suicide measurement techniques, risk factors, and study findings were extracted. A total of 193 studies were included. We found that the Americas, Europe, and Asia have the highest rates of suicidal behavior. Suicide risk factors include demographic factors, mental illness, and physiological, psychological, and social support. Depression is the most common risk factor for PLHIV, with suicidal ideation and attempt risk. Drug overdosage is the main cause of suicide death. In conclusion, the current study found that PLHIV had experienced a high level of suicidal status. This review provides an overview of suicidal behavior and its risk factors in PLHIV with the goal of better managing these factors and thus preventing death due to suicide.

There were over ** thousand suicide attempts in Poland in 2023. Nearly ** percent of them — *** thousand — resulted in death. Most victims of suicide were men.

The global anti-suicide drug market is experiencing significant growth, driven by rising mental health concerns and increasing prevalence of suicidal ideation worldwide. While precise market size figures for 2025 are not provided, based on industry reports and observable trends, a reasonable estimation places the market value at approximately $15 billion in 2025. This robust market is projected to expand at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of X% (Assuming a CAGR of 7% for illustrative purposes, a commonly observed rate in the pharmaceutical sector for emerging treatments). This growth is fueled by several key drivers, including the increasing awareness of mental health issues, advancements in drug development leading to more effective and safer treatments, and growing initiatives for mental health support globally. The market is segmented by drug type (antidepressants, antipsychotics, NMDA antagonists, etc.), application (hospital, clinic, home use), and geography. North America and Europe currently hold the largest market share, reflecting higher healthcare expenditure and better access to treatment in these regions. However, significant growth potential exists in emerging markets in Asia-Pacific and other developing economies, driven by increased healthcare investment and rising awareness of mental health conditions. The market faces certain restraints, primarily high treatment costs and the complexities associated with drug development and regulatory approvals for new anti-suicide medications. The long-term efficacy and potential side effects of various treatment options also need careful consideration. Despite these challenges, ongoing research and development efforts to discover novel mechanisms of action and improve treatment accessibility are expected to propel market expansion throughout the forecast period (2025-2033). The competitive landscape is marked by the presence of major pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, and others, actively involved in research, development, and commercialization of anti-suicide drugs. Strategic collaborations, acquisitions, and launches of innovative products will likely shape the industry dynamics in the coming years. The continued focus on personalized medicine approaches, tailoring treatment to individual patient needs, also contributes to the market's expansion.

The suicide rate among men was more than double as high among men than among women during the whole period from 2009 to 2023. The number of suicides among men was around 17.8 per hundred thousand inhabitants in 2023, while the number among women in the same year was almost 7.4 suicides per hundred thousand inhabitants.

ABSTRACTObjective: Train-person collisions have a significant impact in our society, due to its negative economic and psychological effects. This work aims to study fatalities resulting from train-person collisions in Portugal.Methods: A retrospective study was conducted based on the analysis of autopsy reports related to train-person fatalities performed in the North Branch of the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences.Results: Suicide was responsible for most of the cases, and males were more involved in train-person collisions than females. Victims, between 40-59 years old, were found to be involved in a high percentage (39%) of the cases, and people older than 65 accounted for a significant percentage (40%) of the accidents. No seasonality was observed in suicide cases, but a decrease in accident numbers was registered in summer. Regarding weekday and time of day, afternoon and out of rush hour was the time when most suicides were observed, while accidents did not showed a specific weekday or time of day, except for rush hours, in which they were more frequent. Alcohol positive blood analysis accounting for 25% of the cases.Conclusions: Differences from other European studies were found, which may be related to the different cultures of the countries/regions, as well as to the differences of the railway systems. More extensive studies must be performed, in order to develop strategies to prevent train-person collisions.

In 2023, there were 12 suicides per every 10,000 prisoners in Italian facilities. According to the data, 2022 was the year recording the highest number of prisoners who took their life during the period taken under consideration, with 15.4 suicides every 10,000 detentes. This statistic shows the suicide rate in prisons in Italy from 2000 to 2023.