Russia - Intentional self-harm

By 2007, suicides in Russia increased by 1,526 people to at 41,329 suicides In 2007, on average 113 Russians committed suicide every day.

In Russia there were 29.1 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 10 suicides per 100,000 people.

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

Of the 41,329 recorded suicide cases in 2007, 33,974 were men suicides and 7,355 were women. Men have a very high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 51.6 per 100,000 men and for women 9.6 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 25,377 homicides in Russia, there are more suicides than homicides. For every homicide there were 1.6 suicides.

Related data:

• Homicides in Russia
• Russia economy
• Country suicides ranking