Russia - Intentional self-harm 1997

Suicides Russia 1997

Russia has a very high suicide rate

In 1997 occurred 55,031 suicides in Russia. This year, 2,781 fewer people committed suicide than in 1996. In 1997, on average 151 Russians committed suicide every day.

Russia had 37.2 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 14.89 suicides per 100,000 people.

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

Of the 55,031 recorded suicide cases in 1997, 45,519 were men suicides and 9,512 were women. Men have a very high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 65.7 per 100,000 men and for women 12.1 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 Russia suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 34,995 homicides in Russia, there are more suicides than homicides. For every homicide there were 1.6 suicides.

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Date	Female suicides	Male suicides	Suicides	Female suicide rate	Male suicide rate	Suicide rate
1997	9,512	45,519	55,031	12.10	65.70	37.20
1996	9,705	48,107	57,812	12.30	69.30	39.00
1995	10,673	50,280	60,953	13.50	72.30	41.10
1994	10,422	51,464	61,886	13.20	73.90	41.70
1993	10,120	46,016	56,136	12.80	66.10	37.80
1992	9,145	36,980	46,125	11.60	53.10	31.10
1991	8,465	30,923	39,388	10.70	44.50	26.50
1990	8,758	30,392	39,150	11.10	43.90	26.50
1989	8,555	29,462	38,017	10.90	42.90	25.90
1988	8,895	26,769	35,664	11.40	39.30	24.40
1987	8,553	25,303	33,856	11.00	37.40	23.30
1986	8,539	24,722	33,261	11.10	36.90	23.10
1985	9,440	35,122	44,562	12.30	52.90	31.20
1982	9,874	38,857	48,731	13.10	60.00	34.80
1981	9,774	37,824	47,598	13.10	58.90	34.20
1980	10,154	37,773	47,927	13.70	59.30	34.70

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