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[[Image:Suicide rates map-en.svg|thumb|right|300px|World map of suicide rates per 100,000. 
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[[Image:Hungarian suicide rate.png|thumb|right|235px|Suicide rate in Hungary (1950-2005), 1983: 45.3 suicides per 100,000 people, it was the second highest rate (after Lithuania, 1995: 45.6<ref>[http://www.who.int/mental_health/media/lith.pdf Suicide rate in Lithuania (WHO)]</ref>) in recorded human history]]
The following is a '''list of suicide rates by country''' according to data from the [[World Health Organization]] from 2008 in which a country's rank is determined by its total rate deaths officially recorded as [[suicide]]s. Male and female suicide rates are out of total male population and total female population, respectively (i.e. total number of male suicides divided by total male population). The total rate of suicides is based on the total number of suicides divided by the total population rather than merely the average of the male and female suicide rates, because the gender ratio in most countries is not 1:1. ''Year'' refers to the most recent year that data was available for a particular country.

== List ==
{{Suicide}}
{| class="sortable wikitable" style="text-align: right"
|+ '''Suicides per 100,000 people per year'''<ref>Unless otherwise stated all statistics are from WHO: {{cite web |url=http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/country_reports/en/index.html |title=Country reports and charts available |accessdate=2008-09-16 |work=WHO website - Mental health |publisher=World Health Organization |date=2008}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="#ececec" 
!Country!!Males!!Females!!Total pop.!!Year
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| align="left" | {{flag|Belarus}} || 63.3 || 10.3 || 35.1 || 2003
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| align="left" | {{flag|Lithuania}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/refreshTableAction.do?tab=table&plugin=0&pcode=tps00122&language=en |title= Death Due To Suicide |accessdate=2010-01-10 |work=Eurostat |publisher=European Commission |date=2009}} </ref> || 55.9 || 9.1 || 30.7 || 2008
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| align="left" | {{flag|Russia}} || 53.9 || 9.5 || 30.1 || 2006
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| align="left" | {{flag|Kazakhstan}} || 46.2 || 9.0 || 26.9 || 2007
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| align="left" | {{flag|Latvia}} || 34.1 || 7.7 || 19.9 || 2007
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Japan}} ''See: [[Suicide in Japan]]'' || 35.8 || 13.7 || 24.4 || 2007
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Guyana}} || 33.8 || 11.6 || 22.9 || 2005
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| align="left" | {{flag|Ukraine}} || 40.9 || 7.0 || 22.6 || 2005
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| align="left" | {{flag|South Korea}} ''See: [[Suicide in South Korea]]'' || 29.6 || 14.1 || 21.9 || 2006
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Sri Lanka}}<ref>Only the combined rate for both genders is available for 1996.  Full statistics for both genders were last available for 1991 when the rate was men: 44.6, women: 16.8</ref> || {{N/A}} || {{N/A}} || 21.6 || 1996
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Hungary}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/refreshTableAction.do?tab=table&plugin=0&pcode=tps00122&language=en |title= Death Due To Suicide |accessdate=2010-01-10 |work=Eurostat |publisher=European Commission |date=2009}} </ref> || 37.1 || 8.6 || 21.5 || 2008
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Belgium}} || 27.2 || 9.5 || 18.2 || 1999
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| align="left" | {{flag|Finland}} || 28.9 || 9.0 || 18.8 || 2007
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Croatia}} || 26.9 || 9.7 || 18.0 || 2006
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Serbia and Montenegro}} || 28.4 || 11.1 || 19.5 || 2006
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Slovenia}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stat.si/eng/novica_prikazi.aspx?id=2583 |title= Death Due To Suicide |accessdate=2010-01-28 |work=IVZ/STAT |publisher=Stat.si |date=2009}}</ref> || 32.1 || 7.9 || 19.8 || 2008
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Hong Kong}} || 19.3 || 11.5 || 15.2 || 2006
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Moldova}} || 28.0 || 4.3 || 15.7 || 2007
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|France}} || 25.5 || 9.0 || 17.0 || 2006
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Switzerland}} || 23.5 || 11.7 || 17.5 || 2006
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Estonia}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/refreshTableAction.do?tab=table&plugin=0&pcode=tps00122&language=en |title= Death Due To Suicide |accessdate=2010-01-10 |work=Eurostat |publisher=European Commission |date=2009}} </ref> || 29.1 || 6.2 || 16.5 || 2008
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Poland}} || 26.8 || 4.4 || 15.2 || 2006
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Austria}} || 24.7 || 7.0 || 15.6 || 2006
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Uruguay}} || 24.5 || 6.4 || 15.1 || 2001
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|People's Republic of China}} || 13.0 || 14.8 || 13.9 || 1999
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Seychelles}}<ref>Only the combined rate for both genders is available for 1996.  Full statistics for both genders were last available for 1985 when the rate was men: 21.5, women: 3.7</ref>  || {{N/A}} || {{N/A}} || 13.2 || 1998
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|New Zealand}}<ref>http://www.socialreport.msd.govt.nz/documents/sr08-health.pdf New Zealand Government 2008 Social Report</ref> || 20.3 || 6.5 || 13.2 || 2008
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Sweden}} || 19.5 || 7.1 || 13.3 || 2002
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Trinidad and Tobago}} || 20.9 || 4.9 || 12.8 || 2000
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Slovakia}} || 22.3 || 3.4 || 12.6 || 2005
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Romania}} || 21.5 || 4.0 || 12.5 || 2004
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Cuba}} || 18.6 || 6.2 || 12.4 || 2004
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Suriname}} || 17.8 || 6.4 || 12.1 || 2000
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Czech Republic}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/refreshTableAction.do?tab=table&plugin=0&pcode=tps00122&language=en |title= Death Due To Suicide |accessdate=2010-01-10 |work=Eurostat |publisher=European Commission |date=2009}} </ref> || 20.2 || 4.2 || 11.8 || 2008
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Bosnia and Herzegovina}} || 20.3 || 3.3 || 11.8 || 1991
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Norway}} || 15.7 || 7.4 || 11.6 || 2005
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Canada}} || 17.9 || 5.4 || 11.6 || 2005
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Iceland}} || 16.2 || 6.1 || 11.2 || 2005
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Portugal}} || 17.5 || 4.9 || 11.2 || 2003
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|United States}} || 17.7 || 4.5 || 11.1 || 2005
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Luxembourg}} || 17.7 || 4.3 || 11.0 || 2005
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Australia}} || 17.1 || 4.7 || 10.9 || 2003
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Denmark}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/refreshTableAction.do?tab=table&plugin=0&pcode=tps00122&language=en |title= Death Due To Suicide |accessdate=2010-01-10 |work=Eurostat |publisher=European Commission |date=2009}} </ref> || 16.0 || 5.7 || 10.6 || 2006
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|India}} || 12.2 || 9.1 || 10.6 || 1998
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Chile}} || 17.8 || 3.1 || 10.4 || 2003
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Singapore}} || 12.9 || 7.7 || 10.3 || 2006
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|South Africa}}<ref>This data is for urban areas only.  There is no recent data available for the whole of South Africa {{cite news
 |first=Stephanie
 |last=Burrows
 |coauthors=Lucie Laflamme
 |title=Suicide Mortality in South Africa
 |url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/px7v1186u51k738w/
 |work=Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
 |location=
 |date=February 2006 
 |accessdate=2009-07-05}}</ref> || 25.3 || 5.6 || {{N/A}} || 2005
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Bulgaria}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/refreshTableAction.do?tab=table&plugin=0&pcode=tps00122&language=en |title= Death Due To Suicide |accessdate=2010-01-10 |work=Eurostat |publisher=European Commission |date=2009}} </ref> || 15.3 || 4.7 || 9.5 || 2007
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Netherlands}} || 12.7 || 6.0 || 9.4 || 2004
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Germany}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/refreshTableAction.do?tab=table&plugin=0&pcode=tps00122&language=en |title= Death Due To Suicide |accessdate=2010-01-10 |work=Eurostat |publisher=European Commission |date=2009}} </ref> || 14.9 || 4.4 || 9.4 || 2007
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Ireland}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/refreshTableAction.do?tab=table&plugin=0&pcode=tps00122&language=en |title= Death Due To Suicide |accessdate=2010-01-10 |work=Eurostat |publisher=European Commission |date=2009}} </ref> || 14.5 || 4.2 || 9.3 || 2008
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Kyrgyzstan}} || 15.3 || 3.2 || 9.2 || 2005
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Argentina}} || 14.1 || 3.5 || 8.7 || 2003
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Turkmenistan}} || 13.8 || 3.5 || 8.6 || 1998
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Mauritius}} || 13.2 || 3.8 || 8.5 || 2005
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Zimbabwe}} || 10.6 || 5.2 || 7.9 || 1990
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Thailand}} || 12.0 || 3.8 || 7.8 || 2002
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Saint Lucia}} || 10.4 || 5.0 || 7.7 || 2002
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Belize}} || 13.4 || 1.6 || 7.6 || 2001
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Ecuador}} || 10.4 || 4.0 || 7.2 || 2005
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Nicaragua}} || 11.1 || 3.3 || 7.2 || 2005
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Italy}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/refreshTableAction.do?tab=table&plugin=0&pcode=tps00122&language=en |title= Death Due To Suicide |accessdate=2010-01-10 |work=Eurostat |publisher=European Commission |date=2009}} </ref> || 8.4 || 2.3 || 5.2 || 2007
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|El Salvador}} || 10.3 || 3.5 || 6.9 || 2005
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Republic of Macedonia}} || 9.5 || 4.0 || 6.8 || 2003
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|United Kingdom}}<ref>The suicide rate varies greatly between the different countries that make up the United Kingdom.  In Scotland, which has its own health system the suicide rate is men: 24.9, women: 8.2, combined: 16.0 Scottish Public Health Observatory (see link to excel spreadsheet) </ref> || 10.4 || 3.2 || 6.8 || 2005
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Costa Rica}} || 10.6 || 1.9 || 6.3 || 2005
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Panama}} || 11.1 || 1.4 || 6.3 || 2003
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Israel}} || 10.4 || 2.1 || 6.2 || 2003
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Puerto Rico}} || 10.9 || 1.8 || 6.2 || 2002
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Spain}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/refreshTableAction.do?tab=table&plugin=0&pcode=tps00122&language=en |title= Death Due To Suicide |accessdate=2010-01-10 |work=Eurostat |publisher=European Commission |date=2009}} </ref> || 9.6 || 3.0 || 6.1 || 2007
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Malta}} || 7.0 || 4.9 || 6.0 || 2004
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Colombia}} || 8.9 || 2.6 || 5.7 || 1999
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Uzbekistan}} || 8.1 || 3.0 || 5.5 || 2003
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Venezuela}} || 8.4 || 1.8 || 5.1 || 2002
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Cyprus}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/refreshTableAction.do?tab=table&plugin=0&pcode=tps00122&language=en |title= Death Due To Suicide |accessdate=2010-01-10 |work=Eurostat |publisher=European Commission |date=2009}} </ref> || 7.0 || 1.7 || 4.3 || 2008
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Brazil}} || 6.8 || 1.9 || 4.3 || 2002
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Mexico}} || 7.0 || 1.4 || 4.1 || 2005
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Albania}} <ref>http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide_rates/en/index.html</ref> || 4.7 || 3.3 || 4.0 || 2003
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|The Bahamas}} || 6.0 || 1.3 || 3.6 || 2000
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}} || 6.8 || 0.0 || 3.4 || 2003
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Bahrain}} || 4.9 || 0.5 || 3.1 || 1988
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Paraguay}} || 4.5 || 1.6 || 3.1 || 2003
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Greece}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/refreshTableAction.do?tab=table&plugin=0&pcode=tps00122&language=en |title= Death Due To Suicide |accessdate=2010-01-10 |work=Eurostat |publisher=European Commission |date=2009}} </ref> || 4.8 || 1.0 || 2.8 || 2008
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Tajikistan}} || 2.9 || 2.3 || 2.6 || 2001
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Georgia}} || 3.4 || 1.1 || 2.2 || 2001
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| align="left" | {{flag|Guatemala}} || 3.4 || 0.9 || 2.1 || 2003
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| align="left" | {{flag|Philippines}} || 2.5 || 1.7 || 2.1 || 1993
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Kuwait}} || 2.5 || 1.4 || 2.0 || 2002
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| align="left" | {{flag|Armenia}} || 3.2 || 0.5 || 1.8 || 2003
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| align="left" | {{flag|Dominican Republic}} || 2.9 || 0.6 || 1.8 || 2001
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| align="left" | {{flag|Turkey}} || 2.3 || 2.9 || 1.8 || 1995 <ref>http://lokman.cu.edu.tr/psikiyatri/derindex/kriz/1997/1/43.pdf</ref>
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Azerbaijan}} || 1.8 || 0.5 || 1.1 || 2002
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| align="left" | {{flag|Peru}} || 1.1 || 0.6 || 0.9 || 2000
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| align="left" | {{flag|São Tomé and Príncipe}} || 0.0 || 1.8 || 0.9 || 1987
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| align="left" | {{flag|Barbados}} || 1.4 || 0.0 || 0.7 || 2001
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| align="left" | {{flag|Iran}} || 0.3 || 0.1 || 0.2 || 1991
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Jamaica}} || 0.3 || 0.0 || 0.1 || 1990
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| align="left" | {{flag|Syria}} || 0.2 || 0.0 || 0.1 || 1985
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| align="left" | {{flag|Egypt}} || 0.1 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 1987
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| align="left" | {{flag|Antigua and Barbuda}} || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 1995
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| align="left" | {{flag|Haiti}} || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 2003
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Honduras}} || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 1978
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Jordan}} || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 1979
|-
| align="left" | {{flag|Saint Kitts and Nevis}} || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 1995
|}

==References==
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==See also==
*[[List of OECD countries by suicide rate]]

== External links ==
* [http://chartsbin.com/view/prm Current Worldwide Suicide Rate] Interactive world map from ChartsBin.com

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[[Category:Aspects of countries of the world]]
[[Category:Demography|Suicide]]
[[Category:Lists of countries by per capita values]]
[[Category:Lists of countries|Suicide]]
[[Category:Suicide rates]]
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