International suicide rates, 1970, 1980, 1988

INTERNATIONAL SUICIDE DATA

Suicide Rates (per 100,000 people per year) by Age in selected Countries of the World in 1970, 1980 and (where available) 1988.

Ages==>		15-24	25-34	35-44	45-54	55-64	65-74	75-

Australia
1970	male	12.4	20.1	26.1	33.6	30.9	31.9	38.5
1980	male	17.6	22.9	23.4	22.3	24.0	22.4	31.9
1988	male	27.8	28.2	26.0	24.4	23.8	27.7	39.8

1970	female	4.7	7.8	11.8	14.6	17.0	14.4	9.5
1980	female	4.5	6.9	9.8	9.2	7.9	7.1	9.1
1988	female	4.5	7.2	7.5	8.2	8.7	7.4	10.0


Austria
1970	male	27.0	31.7	46.6	58.5	64.6	72.7	77.7
1980	male	28.8	36.3	43.9	59.3	56.3	72.6	85.7
1988	male	27.2	38.6	42.2	48.1	47.6	58.6	107.5

1970	female	5.7	8.2	16.4	22.3	25.7	27.6	29.4
1980	female	6.7	11.1	14.3	20.7	23.0	29.1	33.9
1988	female	4.7	10.3	13.6	16.5	22.5	22.9	29.7


Bulgaria
1970	male	9.0	11.6	11.3	19.3	27.1	53.2	108.3
1980	male	11.1	12.9	16.3	21.9	26.8	52.2	108.7
1988	male	12.5	15.7	21.8	25.6	33.7	51.2	118.1

1970	female	4.8	4.9	5.3	9.8	15.9	18.4	34.5
1980	female	7.4	5.8	5.7	8.2	14.4	17.0	31.9
1988	female	6.2	6.3	4.1	9.5	14.3	21.6	42.3


Canada
1970	male	15.6	20.1	26.6	27.9	31.9	28.0	24.6
1980	male	24.8	29.5	25.1	30.7	28.5	26.9	38.1
1988	male	26.9	29.2	26.1	24.2	28.0	26.2	30.6

1970	female	4.8	8.6	10.6	14.5	11.4	9.5	4.6
1980	female	5.4	8.1	8.8	13.7	12.1	9.5	5.9
1988	female	4.9	7.1	9.8	9.9	6.9	6.1	6.2


Chile
1970	male	14.3	17.7	14.9	16.6	13.9	22.1	19.9
1980	male	10.8	12.1	13.9	12.5	15.3	10.6	21.2

1970	female	6.1	3.4	1.6	3.2	2.9	3.0	3.5
1980	female	2.9	1.9	0.9	1.7	2.9	1.3	2.4


Denmark
1970	male	11.1	25.4	39.5	55.9	48.8	45.7	55.0
1980	male	16.3	42.7	61.8	70.7	71.8	60.4	81.3
1988	male	15.9	33.6	44.7	50.5	52.6	47.2	69.2

1970	female	5.7	10.6	22.6	30.2	34.1	26.7	19.1
1980	female	7.7	16.7	35.8	42.8	39.3	32.9	31.6
1988	female	5.5	12.0	20.6	33.2	33.2	36.0	33.1


Finland
1970	male	22.5	41.5	55.8	60.9	62.6	66.5	50.5
1980	male	37.5	55.7	55.0	60.3	54.9	62.1	60.1
1988	male	39.6	60.4	65.8	64.4	54.7	60.3	65.6

1970	female	6.7	9.4	11.2	20.6	15.9	12.2	7.4
1980	female	9.1	9.5	11.4	16.8	16.2	22.8	9.7
1988	female	7.5	7.7	13.2	25.4	18.3	16.9	14.4


France
1970	male	9.4	17.1	25.5	36.2	51.1	55.3	74.4
1980	male	15.7	27.4	32.7	39.7	41.2	57.1	99.6
1988	male	13.9	32.5	38.2	40.0	41.2	47.5	109.0

1970	female	4.4	7.4	8.0	11.3	16.3	17.9	18.6
1980	female	5.4	9.6	13.2	14.9	17.2	22.6	24.4
1988	female	4.2	9.0	12.7	19.8	17.6	22.9	25.3


Greece
1970	male	1.7	3.9	6.1	6.7	10.6	10.7	11.6
1980	male	3.0	5.4	5.6	5.2	5.4	10.1	16.6
1988	male	4.8	7.4	5.7	5.9	9.9	7.5	17.5

1970	female	1.4	1.7	1.0	3.2	4.3	1.7	5.6
1980	female	0.6	1.1	1.9	2.8	2.9	4.5	6.1
1988	female	0.6	1.6	1.5	2.9	3.3	6.9	6.0


Hong Kong
1970	male	7.2	27.3	23.8	33.8	41.5	50.5	88.7
1980	male	7.9	18.7	17.2	27.6	31.4	53.8	63.0

1970	female	8.2	11.1	18.9	13.2	26.8	46.4	89.1
1980	female	7.6	12.4	11.8	14.3	21.4	44.4	64.6


Hungary
1970	male	27.8	48.6	63.6	78.4	85.1	104.9	146.4
1980	male	31.5	58.3	86.8	106.4	96.7	116.3	202.2
1988	male	21.0	57.8	79.4	99.7	84.8	96.0	172.9

1970	female	9.6	11.0	17.5	23.8	33.8	46.2	76.4
1980	female	8.0	16.4	26.7	36.2	42.2	52.9	90.6
1988	female	10.1	19.0	27.2	34.8	35.9	46.8	74.9


Italy
1970	male	3.5	5.9	7.4	11.4	18.3	24.3	33.3
1980	male	5.3	8.3	9.1	14.0	17.3	26.5	37.4
1988	male	4.9	9.1	9.9	12.1	16.2	28.3	47.4

1970	female	2.3	2.7	3.5	5.2	7.0	7.5	7.8
1980	female	2.4	3.3	4.2	6.8	8.2	10.2	10.2
1988	female	1.4	2.7	3.6	5.7	7.3	9.7	11.1


Japan
1970	male	14.0	20.1	17.8	20.1	32.3	50.4	82.1
1980	male	16.6	24.9	28.9	33.3	32.2	40.9	73.3
1988	male	10.4	21.9	26.6	41.2	37.8	39.2	72.2

1970	female	11.9	13.8	10.0	13.5	20.6	40.5	66.3
1980	female	8.2	11.4	12.5	15.1	17.8	35.5	60.2
1988	female	6.5	9.3	10.4	16.6	19.3	30.6	54.9


Netherlands
1970	male	5.8	6.4	11.1	15.7	24.0	25.4	42.5
1980	male	8.3	14.9	15.1	17.1	22.3	26.1	41.1
1988	male	8.2	16.1	14.3	17.2	20.0	21.2	41.3

1970	female	2.1	5.5	7.5	11.0	12.6	14.9	17.5
1980	female	3.7	8.0	8.9	12.4	14.1	14.3	12.0
1988	female	2.4	8.3	9.3	11.2	14.0	13.1	10.7


New Zealand
1970	male	12.1	10.4	23.1	24.5	16.8	34.6	31.2
1980	male	19.5	17.8	17.4	27.3	22.2	24.4	35.6

1970	female	---	3.8	2.9	8.5	12.1	21.1	19.2
1980	female	---	8.1	9.3	6.8	15.6	4.4	13.1


Norway
1970	male	5.4	15.0	17.4	19.2	24.7	19.6	13.3
1980	male	20.4	18.2	20.6	28.6	31.8	25.5	24.0
1988	male	26.6	31.4	27.5	36.8	34.4	25.4	33.7

1970	female	2.0	4.5	10.1	10.4	8.9	6.9	1.9
1980	female	3.3	9.0	6.7	14.2	12.1	9.6	4.7
1988	female	6.5	11.7	13.8	14.3	13.1	13.0	7.7


Portugal
1970	male	5.6	6.2	17.5	14.5	27.6	43.4	72.2
1980	male	5.2	7.9	14.7	18.6	24.1	31.0	53.7
1988	male	6.4	8.7	10.7	20.0	23.2	33.4	49.2

1970	female	3.6	2.1	3.0	3.8	6.7	9.2	11.7
1980	female	4.1	5.4	3.8	4.2	5.4	5.6	11.0
1988	female	2.9	2.7	1.8	4.5	5.4	10.2	9.3


Singapore
1970	male	9.1	8.1	13.3	23.2	39.0	56.5	137.9
1980	male	9.0	17.7	8.1	17.5	32.9	40.9	107.4

1970	female	6.3	15.7	9.0	14.1	14.5	39.9	53.6
1980	female	11.7	10.1	8.3	12.3	17.1	34.5	57.3


Spain
1970	male	2.0	4.1	7.0	9.6	15.7	21.9	29.0
1980	male	4.3	6.2	6.6	9.7	12.4	18.6	28.5

1970	female	0.9	1.4	1.6	3.8	5.4	5.7	6.9
1980	female	1.1	1.3	2.1	3.3	4.9	4.7	6.4


Sweden
1970	male	18.5	27.9	44.9	52.5	54.6	46.3	48.8
1980	male	16.9	33.3	37.6	43.9	35.3	39.3	48.9

1970	female	7.9	15.3	19.3	26.0	17.8	15.6	13.0
1980	female	5.8	11.3	16.2	17.8	21.2	14.5	11.4


Switzerland
1970	male	21.3	27.6	31.2	46.2	49.0	49.5	74.1
1980	male	34.2	36.5	42.2	46.1	63.4	58.9	80.7
1988	male	26.3	38.0	36.6	39.6	41.7	48.5	74.8

1970	female	4.7	10.2	8.8	19.5	19.1	21.7	16.0
1980	female	12.3	14.8	17.6	21.7	20.8	26.8	23.2
1988	female	7.1	10.0	13.7	17.5	19.7	22.2	26.4


Thailand
1970	male	7.2	5.7	9.0	8.5	11.7	9.5	10.7
1980	male	12.8	11.1	11.6	13.8	12.9	12.6	-----

1970	female	9.9	3.4	3.8	3.0	2.8	2.2	1.1
1980	female	19.6	8.6	7.4	7.1	4.8	3.3	-----


UK: England and Wales
1970	male	6.0	9.1	11.3	14.1	17.5	20.7	23.9
1980	male	6.4	13.0	15.5	15.4	17.9	18.2	21.6
1988	male	11.0	15.5	18.0	14.7	15.3	16.2	24.3


1970	female	2.6	4.4	7.4	10.3	12.9	15.3	9.7
1980	female	3.0	4.2	8.1	10.9	11.8	13.3	11.0
1988	female	2.5	3.8	4.9	6.4	6.8	8.0	8.4


UK: Scotland
1970	male	5.8	8.6	15.6	13.1	24.0	12.9	21.7
1980	male	9.6	15.2	19.1	23.4	17.8	18.8	23.2
1988	male	20.5	23.9	22.5	26.6	18.8	12.9	24.1

1970	female	1.8	5.8	8.2	15.1	12.7	5.7	5.6
1980	female	3.1	7.0	9.6	14.3	14.3	10.9	8.1
1988	female	4.9	7.7	9.8	7.9	7.7	12.0	6.0


USA
1970	male	13.5	19.6	22.2	27.8	32.8	36.5	41.8
1980	male	20.2	24.8	22.3	23.0	24.4	30.2	43.5
1988	male	21.9	25.0	22.9	21.7	25.0	33.0	57.8

1970	female	4.2	8.6	12.1	12.5	11.4	9.3	6.7
1980	female	4.3	7.0	8.4	9.4	8.4	6.5	5.4
1988	female	4.2	5.7	6.9	7.9	7.2	6.8	6.4


Venezuela
1970	male	14.5	12.6	17.8	19.0	28.8	42.5	47.5
1980	male	10.4	13.9	13.1	18.5	20.6	24.9	46.8

1970	female	11.3	5.6	4.1	4.1	3.0	7.6	5.3
1980	female	3.5	3.2	3.3	2.8	2.4	1.8	2.8


West Germany
1970	male	19.6	27.0	35.1	43.2	51.6	53.9	75.2
1980	male	19.0	26.9	33.0	42.0	38.9	54.0	72.8
1988	male	15.8	22.7	24.4	33.0	35.5	41.3	77.8

1970	female	6.9	11.5	15.9	25.4	27.2	26.1	27.0
1980	female	5.6	9.9	14.0	20.4	23.6	27.1	25.9
1988	female	4.7	7.7	9.5	13.6	14.6	19.5	24.1