Finland - Intentional self-harm 1976

Suicides Finland 1976

Finland has a very high suicide rate

By 1976, suicides in Finland increased by 40 people to at 1,218 suicides In 1976, on average 3 Finns committed suicide every day.

In Finland there were 25.8 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 12.41 suicides per 100,000 people.

Finland has a very high suicide rate compared to other countries.

Of the 1,218 recorded suicide cases in 1976, 967 were men suicides and 251 were women. Men have a high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 42.3 per 100,000 men and for women 10.3 per 100,000 female. In spite of this, it is one of the countries with the highest female suicide rate in the world.

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Date	Female suicides	Male suicides	Suicides	Female suicide rate	Male suicide rate	Suicide rate
1976	251	967	1,218	10.30	42.30	25.80
1975	254	924	1,178	10.40	40.60	25.00
1974	255	921	1,176	10.50	40.60	25.10
1973	249	848	1,097	10.30	37.60	23.50
1972	239	874	1,113	10.00	39.00	24.00
1971	222	780	1,002	9.30	35.00	21.70
1970	220	763	983	9.20	34.30	21.30
1969	246	850	1,096	10.30	38.00	23.70
1968	231	784	1,015	9.70	35.10	21.90
1967	204	729	933	8.60	32.80	20.30
1966	219	673	892	9.20	30.40	19.50
1965	194	717	911	8.20	32.50	20.00
1964	225	683	908	9.60	31.10	20.00
1963	187	686	873	8.00	31.40	19.30
1962	230	764	994	9.90	35.30	22.10
1961	208	714	922	9.00	33.20	20.70
1960	207	701	908	9.00	32.90	20.50

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