Suicide rate by country
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The following statistics on the suicide rate by country are based on data from the World Health Organization (WHO), which in turn go back to the data on officially recorded suicides made available by the respective countries . The correctness of the suicide rate is therefore dependent on the accuracy with which the suicides are recorded - which depends on awareness-raising, technical means, organization and the will to implement it. Greenland has the highest suicide rate in the world but is not recorded by the World Health Organization.
The rate of suicides is also an OECD - indicator of health status.
calculation
Suicide rates for women, men and the general population are recorded and published in many countries. The suicide rates of women and men are calculated according to the respective male and female total population (e.g. total number of suicides among women divided by the total number of women in the country). Statistically , the suicide rate for men is higher than for women, with China being an exception.
Limitations in the determination and comparability
The suicide rate can only be approximated and it is difficult to compare different countries. The rules for classifying a death as suicide vary from country to country. There is no single standard. Cultural and social aspects play a role here. In some countries, “suicide” may be stigmatized and not recognized as a social problem. Then suicides would not be classified as such and under-recorded.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Mortality and Burden of Disease Estimates for WHO Member States in 2002. (xls; 3.0 MB) In: World Health Organization. 2002, accessed September 21, 2012 .
- ^ Health at a Glance 2009: OECD Indicators. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. OECD Library 2009.
- ↑ gender ratio. Retrieved March 18, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c SUICIDE RATE. In: United Nations . June 15, 2007, accessed November 7, 2018 .
- ↑ a b OECD (2017), Health at a Glance 2017: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, page 60, doi: 10.1787 / health_glance-2017-en .
- ^ Karl Andriessen: Do we need to be cautious in evaluating suicide statistics? In: European Journal of Public Health . tape 16 , no. 4 , 2016.
- ^ WHO Suicide rates Data by country. Retrieved March 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Federal Statistical Office: Suicide rate - deaths from suicide per 100,000 inhabitants - 1969-2016 | Table. October 17, 2019, accessed January 1, 2020 .
