Suicide mortality rate (per 100,000 population) in Germany was reported at 12.9 % in 2021, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Germany - Suicide mortality rate (per 100,000 population) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on September of 2025.

Historical dataset showing Germany suicide rate by year from 2000 to 2021.

Germany DE: Suicide Mortality Rate: Female data was reported at 7.700 NA in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 7.800 NA for 2015. Germany DE: Suicide Mortality Rate: Female data is updated yearly, averaging 7.700 NA from Dec 2000 (Median) to 2016, with 5 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 7.800 NA in 2015 and a record low of 7.000 NA in 2010. Germany DE: Suicide Mortality Rate: Female data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.World Bank.WDI: Health Statistics. Suicide mortality rate is the number of suicide deaths in a year per 100,000 population. Crude suicide rate (not age-adjusted).; ; World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).; Weighted average;

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 2023, 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.

Germany's death rate has exceeded its death rate in every year since 1972, meaning that its population has been in a natural decline for over five decades. However, Germany's population has remained fairly stable at over 80 million during this period, due to the influence of immigration.Find more statistics on other topics about Germany with key insights such as life expectancy of women at birth, total life expectancy at birth, and total fertility rate.

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Germany DE: Suicide Mortality Rate: Male data was reported at 19.700 NA in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 19.900 NA for 2015. Germany DE: Suicide Mortality Rate: Male data is updated yearly, averaging 20.400 NA from Dec 2000 (Median) to 2016, with 5 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 22.100 NA in 2000 and a record low of 19.700 NA in 2016. Germany DE: Suicide Mortality Rate: Male data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.World Bank.WDI: Health Statistics. Suicide mortality rate is the number of suicide deaths in a year per 100,000 population. Crude suicide rate (not age-adjusted).; ; World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).; Weighted average;

Germany DE: Suicide Mortality Rate: per 100,000 Population data was reported at 12.900 Ratio in 2021. This records an increase from the previous number of 12.870 Ratio for 2020. Germany DE: Suicide Mortality Rate: per 100,000 Population data is updated yearly, averaging 13.110 Ratio from Dec 2000 (Median) to 2021, with 22 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 14.560 Ratio in 2002 and a record low of 12.380 Ratio in 2007. Germany DE: Suicide Mortality Rate: per 100,000 Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.World Bank.WDI: Social: Health Statistics. Suicide mortality rate is the number of suicide deaths in a year per 100,000 population. Crude suicide rate (not age-adjusted).;World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).;Weighted average;This is the Sustainable Development Goal indicator 3.4.2[https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/].

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Data from Heuer (1979) on suicide rates in West Germany classified by age, sex, and method of suicide.
A data frame with 306 observations and 6 variables.

This dataset is about countries per year in Germany. It has 64 rows. It features 4 columns: country, country full name, and suicide mortality rate.

Crude death rate from suicide and intentional self-harm per 100 000 people, by age group. Suicide registration methods vary between countries and over time. Figures do not include deaths from events of undetermined intent (part of which should be considered as suicides) and attempted suicides which did not result in death.

Changes in suicide rates in 4-level intervention regions and in Germany-IR.

This scatter chart displays suicide mortality rate (per 100,000 population) against median age (year) in Germany. The data is about countries per year.

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.

As in many countries, the numbers of older prisoners are rising in Germany, but scientific information on this group is scarce. For the current study, a survey was used that included all prison suicides in Germany between the years of 2000 and 2013. Suicide rates of the elderly prisoners exceeded the suicide rates of the general population and the same age group. We observed a continuous decrease in the suicide rate of elderly prisoners. When compared to the younger suicide victims in prison, significantly more elderly suicide victims were: female, of German nationality, remand prisoners, or serving a life sentence. In Germany, elderly prisoners are a vulnerable subpopulation of the prison population. Higher suicide rates than in the same age group in the general population indicate unmet needs regarding mental disorders and their specific treatment.

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The data set contains 503 variables and 624 observations on suicides and suicide rates as well as on demographic, socio-structural, infrastructure and crime statistics on the canton and national level for the years 1952 to 1990. The information was recorded and processed by GDR’s Central Bureau of Statistics on a yearly basis. The statistical yearbooks of the GDR and various files of the Federal Archive were used as the sources of this data.

The demographic statistics include the population distribution by gender and age-groups, the incidence of deaths, homicides, births, stillbirths, as well as infant mortality and domestic migration rates by year and administrative district. The socio-structural information includes marriage and divorce rates, population distribution by education, employment and religious denomination, as well as the number of members and candidates of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany by year and district. The infrastructure data contains information on population density, residential housing construction and retail sales by year and administrative canton. The annual numbers of offenders of criminally liable age and convicted persons in the districts that come from the GDR crime statistics were included in the data set from the GDR crime statistics.

Missing values indicate that no information could be found for the given year or region. However, the missing information on the distribution by gender and age-groups, as well as suicide rates by age-group can be estimated using the attached do-files. A detailed description of how the missing values have been determined can be found in the document “Imputation und Standardisierung.pdf”. The do-files and the description are available in a zip file below.

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Dieser Datensatz umfasst 503 Variablen und 624 Beobachtungen. Er beinhaltet Informationen zu Suizidzahlen sowie demographische, sozialstrukturelle, infrastrukturelle Statistiken und Kriminalstatistiken in den Bezirken der DDR sowie des gesamten Landes von 1952 bis 1990. In der DDR war die Staatliche Zentralverwaltung für Statistik (SZS) für die Sammlung und Aufbereitung der verschiedenen Jahresstatistiken zuständig, weshalb die langen Zeitreihen größtenteils aus dem Primärbestand der SZS ermittelt und anschließend vergleichbar über die Bezirke und den Zeitverlauf berechnet wurden. Als Recherchequellen dienen die statistischen Jahrbücher der DDR sowie verschiedene Akten des Bundesarchivs.

Die demographischen Statistiken umfassen die jährlichen bezirksspezifischen Verteilungen der Geschlechter, Altersgruppen, Verstorbenen, Ermordeten, Lebendgeborenen, Totgeborenen, gestorbenen Säuglinge und Binnenmigration. Die sozialstrukturellen Informationen umfassen Angaben zu regionalen Verteilungen der Eheschließung, Ehescheidung, Bildung, Beschäftigung und Konfession sowie Statistiken über die Mitgliedschaft und Kandidatur für eine Mitgliedschaft bei der SED. Die verschiedenen infrastrukturellen Daten umfassen jährliche Statistiken der Bevölkerungsdichte, des Wohnungsbaus und des Einzelhandelsumsatzes in den Bezirken der DDR. Zudem wurden aus der Kriminalstatistik der DDR die jährliche Anzahl der strafmündigen Täter und der Verurteilten in den Bezirken in den Datensatz aufgenommen.

Missings werden in dem Datensatz ausgewiesen, wenn für bestimmte Jahre oder Regionen keine Zahlen recherchiert werden konnten bzw. die Informationen nicht erhoben wurden. Fehlende Suizidzahlen und fehlende Bevölkerungszahlen in bestimmten Altersgruppen können mittels der beigefügten Do-Files geschätzt und importiert werden. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung der Bestimmung der fehlenden Zahlen lassen sich dem Dokument „Imputation und Standardisierung.pdf“ entnehmen. Zudem ist ein unverzerrter Vergleich der Suizidraten über Regionen und Zeit nur anhand von standardisierten Suizidraten möglich. Auch dieses Vorgehen der indirekten Standardisierung ist im genannten Dokument beschrieben und kann anhand der Do-Files repliziert werden. Sie sind unten in einer Zip-Datei verfügbar.

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.

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