List of German federal states by suicide rate

This article is about suicide. For those at risk, there is a wide network of offers of help in which ways out are shown. In acute emergencies, the telephone counseling and the European emergency number 112 can be reached continuously and free of charge. After an initial crisis intervention , qualified referrals can be made to suitable counseling centers on request.

The following lists provide an overview of the number of completed suicides in the federal states of Germany. A second statistic gives an overview of the development of the number of suicides in the federal states and the entire state.

Federal states by suicide rate (2018)

Countries are ranked according to the rate of suicide among the total population. The rates of women and men and the total number of suicides are also given.

rank	state	Number of suicides	Suicides per 100,000 population (total)	Suicides per 100,000 population (women)	Suicides per 100,000 population (men)
1	Saxony-Anhalt	342	13.7	4.9	22.4
2	Saxony	619	13.5	6.7	20.0
3	Thuringia	309	12.8	5.3	20.2
4th	Bavaria	1,671	12.7	6.1	19.1
5	Schleswig-Holstein	380	12.6	5.9	19.2
6th	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	220	12.4	5.4	19.2
7th	Hamburg	215	12.1	5.4	18.8
8th	Lower Saxony	970	11.9	5.6	18.0
9	Bremen	83	11.9	7.5	16.2
10	Hesse	741	11.8	6.2	17.3
11	Rhineland-Palatinate	485	11.6	5.1	17.9
12	Baden-Württemberg	1,236	11.1	6.9	16.1
13	Saarland	110	10.5	3.4	17.7
14th	Berlin	374	10.4	5.5	15.3
15th	Brandenburg	239	8.8	2.9	14.4
16	North Rhine-Westphalia	1,402	7.7	4.0	11.3
	Germany	9,396	11.0	5.3	16.6

Development of the number of suicides (1998-2018)

The following table provides an overview of the long-term development of the number of suicides in Germany.

state	1998	1999	2000	2005	2010	2015	2016	2017	2018
Baden-Württemberg	1,565	1,514	1,441	1,424	1,383	1,288	1,344	1,330	1,236
Bavaria	1,942	1,881	1,959	1,724	1,767	1,799	1,738	1,597	1,671
Berlin	447	483	472	417	366	470	382	278	374
Brandenburg	413	397	382	336	303	329	302	103	239
Bremen	113	93	99	94	72	84	59	61	83
Hamburg	333	271	204	240	219	208	245	219	215
Hesse	735	784	769	850	712	772	757	744	741
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	204	231	205	181	215	200	171	182	220
Lower Saxony	1,089	1,051	1,134	999	916	1,013	850	950	970
North Rhine-Westphalia	1,899	1,720	1,715	1,701	1,816	1,533	1,680	1,512	1,402
Rhineland-Palatinate	619	581	547	546	479	533	507	508	485
Saarland	95	99	109	126	121	136	123	101	110
Saxony	852	807	785	694	636	643	642	611	619
Saxony-Anhalt	471	436	435	253	305	373	321	348	342
Schleswig-Holstein	425	379	420	377	384	401	408	376	380
Thuringia	442	430	389	298	327	296	309	321	309
Former federal territory and East Berlin	9,262	8,856	8,869	8,498	8,235	8,237	8.093	7,676	7,667
New countries without East Berlin	2,382	2,301	2,196	1,762	1,786	1,841	1,745	1,565	1,729
Germany	11,644	11,157	11,065	10,260	10,021	10,078	9,838	9,241	9,396

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Suicide rate in Germany by federal state. Retrieved June 8, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Number of suicides from 1998 to 2018. Accessed June 8, 2020 .