Russia - Intentional self-harm

In 2005 occurred 46,063 suicides in Russia. This year, 3,315 fewer people committed suicide than in 2004. In 2005, on average 126 Russians committed suicide every day.

Russia had 32.2 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 10.34 suicides per 100,000 people.

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

Of the 46,063 recorded suicide cases in 2005, 38,574 were men suicides and 7,489 were women. Men have a very high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 58.1 per 100,000 men and for women 9.8 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 35,636 homicides in Russia, there are more suicides than homicides. For every homicide there were 1.3 suicides.

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• Homicides in Russia
• Russia economy
• Country suicides ranking