Lithuania - Intentional self-harm 1997

Suicides Lithuania 1997

Lithuania has the highest suicide rate in the world

In 1997 occurred 1,632 suicides in Lithuania. This year, 91 fewer people committed suicide than in 1996. In 1997, on average 4 Lithuanians committed suicide every day.

Lithuania had 45.6 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 14.89 suicides per 100,000 people.

Lithuania has the highest suicide rate in the world.

Of the 1,632 recorded suicide cases in 1997, 1,348 were men suicides and 284 were women. Men have a very high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 80.3 per 100,000 men and for women 15 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 391 homicides in Lithuania, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 4.2 suicides.

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Date	Female suicides	Male suicides	Suicides	Female suicide rate	Male suicide rate	Suicide rate
1997	284	1,348	1,632	15.00	80.30	45.60
1996	334	1,389	1,723	17.50	82.00	47.80
1995	306	1,388	1,694	15.90	81.20	46.70
1994	262	1,441	1,703	13.60	83.50	46.60
1993	274	1,298	1,572	14.10	74.60	42.70
1992	271	1,023	1,294	13.90	58.50	35.00
1991	221	921	1,142	11.30	52.60	30.80
1990	190	779	969	9.80	44.50	26.20
1989	189	811	1,000	9.70	46.50	27.10
1988	235	737	972	12.20	42.60	26.60
1987	218	833	1,051	11.40	48.80	29.10
1986	192	719	911	10.20	42.60	25.50
1985	242	968	1,210	12.90	58.00	34.10
1982	225	948	1,173	12.30	58.30	33.90
1981	195	960	1,155	10.70	59.40	33.60

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