Russia - Intentional self-harm 2000

Suicides Russia 2000

Russia has a very high suicide rate

By 2000, suicides in Russia increased by 342 people to at 56,934 suicides In 2000, on average 156 Russians committed suicide every day.

In Russia there were 38.8 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 10.98 suicides per 100,000 people.

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

Of the 56,934 recorded suicide cases in 2000, 47,806 were men suicides and 9,128 were women. Men have a very high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 69.8 per 100,000 men and for women 11.7 per 100,000 female.

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 41,090 homicides in Russia, there are more suicides than homicides. For every homicide there were 1.4 suicides.

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Date	Female suicides	Male suicides	Suicides	Female suicide rate	Male suicide rate	Suicide rate
2000	9,128	47,806	56,934	11.70	69.80	38.80
1999	9,931	47,345	57,276	12.70	68.70	38.90
1998	8,985	42,785	51,770	11.40	61.90	35.10
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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