International suicide rates (1990) for 20 countries by age and sex; sorted by overall rate

Suicide Rates per 100,000 people; by Age and Sex for 20 Countries, 1990, in order of total suicide rate.

Country	All ages	5-14	15-24	25-34	35-44	45-54	55-64	65-74	75-

Hungary
Male	59.9	2.5	20.1	56.0	79.5	99.6	90.2	97.3	196.6
Female	21.4	0.8	8.2	11.8	20.3	29.9	28.8	37.1	75.6

Finland
Male	49.3	1.2	50.9	64.1	68.1	63.7	56.3	49.6	90.1
Female	12.4	0.0	11.0	12.9	17.7	17.4	19.8	16.6	10.2

Denmark
Male	32.2	1.0	14.1	26.7	44.5	53.0	43.7	47.3	76.7
Female	16.3	0.0	4.0	6.9	18.4	27.3	31.5	30.0	32.2

Austria
Male	34.8	0.2	25.0	32.7	37.3	47.7	44.0	66.8	107.6
Female	13.4	0.5	5.5	8.4	13.9	16.5	20.8	22.0	35.5

Switzerland
Male	31.5	0.0	24.8	33.2	32.2	39.0	42.7	51.6	86.8
Female	12.7	1.1	6.3	10.9	12.8	19.6	16.3	23.1	23.5

France
Male	29.6	0.4	14.1	30.6	37.2	41.1	38.3	47.1	105.9
Female	11.1	0.1	4.4	9.1	11.8	16.4	18.1	18.5	25.6

Czechoslovakia
Male	27.3	0.6	12.2	25.4	36.0	48.9	41.1	54.3	98.6
Female	8.9	0.2	4.3	6.4	8.8	11.3	13.8	19.7	29.4

Japan
Male	20.4	0.4	9.2	18.4	21.5	32.0	32.5	36.6	62.9
Female	12.4	02	4.7	9.0	9.2	15.0	17.6	25.3	48.6

West Germany
Male	22.4	0.4	15.0	21.3	22.2	28.2	31.0	34.6	72.2
Female	9.6	0.1	4.5	6.9	7.6	11.4	12.8	17.1	23.7

Norway
Male	23.3	1.5	22.1	28.0	29.7	28.3	34.1	34.3	30.9
Female	8.0	0.0	6.3	6.1	10.3	14.1	12.8	13.9	7.9

Yugoslavia
Male	21.6	1.1	9.6	17.2	23.2	34.1	40.3	56.5	97.3
Female	9.2	0.5	3.6	5.1	8.6	13.3	16.9	23.7	32.3

Bulgaria
Male	20.7	2.2	13.9	17.2	17.6	24.2	27.6	43.5	97.1
Female	8.8	0.3	4.2	4.9	6.4	8.1	11.7	23.1	38.9

Poland
Male	22.0	1.0	16.2	30.4	33.0	38.4	36.3	28.0	27.3
Female	4.5	0.2	2.8	4.3	6.0	7.4	8.7	7.2	7.4

Canada
Male	20.4	1.2	24.6	29.6	26.7	23.4	22.6	20.7	32.4
Female	5.2	0.4	5.0	6.4	9.0	7.4	5.4	5.9	4.2

United States
Male	20.4	1.1	22.0	24.8	23.9	23.2	25.7	32.2	57.9
Female	4.8	0.4	3.9	5.6	6.8	6.9	7.3	6.7	6.0

Uruguay
Male	16.6	1.1	13.4	12.5	19.8	24.8	30.2	29.9	71.2
Female	4.2	1.1	2.9	3.6	3.7	4.1	3.0	16.8	10.0

Portugal
Male	13.5	0.7	7.4	14.0	11.9	15.9	22.0	30.2	57.8
Female	4.5	0.0	3.1	3.6	3.5	5.8	5.7	8.3	15.9

England/Wales
Male	12.1	0.1	11.7	16.0	17.1	16.4	13.3	13.6	19.4
Female	3.7	0.0	2.0	3.8	4.5	5.1	5.3	6.1	6.2

Greece
Male	5.5	0.4	5.2	6.3	5.5	5.3	7.1	7.1	17.4
Female	1.5	0.0	1.1	1.5	0.9	3.0	2.1	2.6	2.4

Mexico
Male	3.9	0.4	5.0	6.1	6.7	6.0	7.4	10.0	17.8
Female	0.7	0.1	1.2	0.9	0.8	0.8	1.2	0.9	0.8


[Sources of data: For all countries except United States: World Health Organization, World Health Statistics Annual 1992. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 1993. For US: National Center for Health Stats, unpublished data, 1993.]