In 1995 around 1,694 suicides occurred in Lithuania, 9 less than in 1994. In 1995, on average 5 Lithuanians committed suicide every day.
Lithuania reported 46.7 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 15.58 suicides per 100,000 people.
Lithuania has the highest suicide rate in the world.
Of the 1,694 recorded suicide cases in 1995, 1,388 were men suicides and 306 were women. Men have a very high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 81.2 per 100,000 men and for women 15.9 per 100,000 female. In spite of this, it is one of the countries with the highest female suicide rate in the world.
Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Lithuania suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 502 homicides in Lithuania, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 3.4 suicides.
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