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Suicide Rates (per 100,000)
( most recent year available, as of October 2000)
Country	Year	Males	Females
Albania	1993	2.9	1.7
Antigua and Barbuda	1995	0.0	0.0
Argentina	1996	9.9	3.0
Armenia	1997	3.4	0.8
Australia	1995	19.0	5.1
Austria	1998	30.0	9.2
Azerbaijan	1997	2.3	0.5
Bahamas	1995	2.2	0.0
Bahrain	1988	4.9	0.5
Barbados	1995	9.6	3.7
Belarus	1998	63.4	10.1
Belgium	1994	31.2	11.4
Belize	1995	12.1	0.9
Brazil	1992	5.6	1.6
Bulgaria	1998	26.2	10.6
Canada	1997	19.6	5.1
Chile	1994	10.2	1.4
China (mainland)	1994	14.3	17.9
China (Hong Kong SAR)	1996	15.9	9.1
Colombia	1994	5.5	1.5
Costa Rica	1995	9.7	2.1
Croatia	1997	31.5	10.8
Cuba	1996	24.5	12.0
Czech Republic	1998	25.3	6.5
Denmark	1996	24.3	9.8
Dominican Republic	1994	0.0	0.0
Ecuador	1995	6.4	3.2
Egypt	1987	0.1	0.0
El Salvador	1993	10.4	5.5
Estonia	1998	59.4	10.5
Finland	1996	38.7	10.7
France	1997	28.4	10.1
Georgia	1990	5.4	2.0
Germany	1998	21.5	7.3
Greece	1997	6.2	1.0
Guatemala	1984	0.9	0.1
Guyana	1994	14.6	6.5
Honduras	1978	0.0	0.0
Hungary	1998	51.1	14.7
Iceland	1995	16.4	3.8
India	1995	11.4	8.0
Iran	1991	0.3	0.1
Ireland	1996	19.2	3.5
Israel	1996	8.2	2.6
Italy	1996	12.4	4.2
Jamaica	1985	0.5	0.2
Japan	1997	26.0	11.9
Jordan	1979	0.0	0.0
Kazakhstan	1997	51.0	9.4
Kuwait	1997	1.4	2.4
Kyrgyzstan	1998	18.4	3.7
Latvia	1998	59.8	12.2
Lithuania	1998	73.7	13.7
Luxembourg	1997	29.0	9.8
Macedonia FYR	1997	11.5	4.0
Malta	1997	5.9	2.1
Mauritius	1998	21.9	7.8
Mexico	1995	5.4	1.0
Netherlands	1997	13.5	6.7
New Zealand	1996	23.4	5.9
Nicaragua	1994	4.7	2.2
Norway	1995	19.1	6.2
Panama	1987	5.6	1.9
Paraguay	1994	3.4	1.2
Peru	1989	0.6	0.4
Philippines	1993	2.5	1.7
Poland	1996	24.1	4.6
Portugal	1998	8.7	2.7
Puerto Rico	1992	16.0	1.9
Republic of Korea	1997	17.8	8.0
Republic of Moldova	1996	30.9	6.2
Romania	1998	21.3	4.2
Russian Federation	1997	66.4	12.3
Saint Kitts and Nevis	1995	0.0	0.0
Saint Lucia	1988	9.3	5.8
St. Vincent and The Grenadines	1986	0.0	0.0
Sao Tome and Principe	1987	0.0	1.8
Seychelles	1987	9.1	0.0
Singapore	1997	14.3	8.0
Slovak Republic	1995	23.4	4.6
Slovenia	1997	49.3	11.8
Spain	1996	12.8	4.3
Sri Lanka	1991	44.6	16.8
Suriname	1992	16.6	7.2
Sweden	1996	20.0	8.5
Switzerland	1996	29.2	11.6
Syrian Arab Republic	1985	0.2	0.0
Tajikistan	1992	5.1	2.3
Thailand	1994	5.6	2.4
Trinidad and Tobago	1994	17.5	5.1
Turkmenistan	1994	8.1	3.4
Ukraine	1998	51.7	10.6
United Kingdom	1997	11.0	3.2
United States of America	1997	18.7	4.4
Uruguay	1990	16.6	4.2
Uzbekistan	1993	9.3	3.2
Venezuela	1994	8.3	1.9
Yugoslavia	1990	21.6	9.2
Zimbabwe	1990	10.6	5.2

World Health Organization,Geneva, October 2000
 
 

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