In Lithuania there were 47.8 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 15.06 suicides per 100,000 people.
Lithuania has the highest suicide rate in the world.
Of the 1,723 recorded suicide cases in 1996, 1,389 were men suicides and 334 were women. Men have a high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 82 per 100,000 men and for women 17.5 per 100,000 female In spite of this, it is the country 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 405 homicides in Lithuania, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 4.3 suicides.
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