Russia - Intentional self-harm 2008

Suicides Russia 2008

Russia has a very high suicide rate

In 2008 occurred 38,406 suicides in Russia. This year, 2,923 fewer people committed suicide than in 2007. In 2008, on average 105 Russians committed suicide every day.

Russia had 27.1 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 9.96 suicides per 100,000 people.

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

Of the 38,406 recorded suicide cases in 2008, 31,472 were men suicides and 6,934 were women. Men have a very high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 47.9 per 100,000 men and for women 9.1 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 18,188 homicides in Russia, suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 2.1 suicides.

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Date	Female suicides	Male suicides	Suicides	Female suicide rate	Male suicide rate	Suicide rate
2008	6,934	31,472	38,406	9.10	47.90	27.10
2007	7,355	33,974	41,329	9.60	51.60	29.10
2006	7,247	35,608	42,855	9.50	53.90	30.10
2005	7,489	38,574	46,063	9.80	58.10	32.20
2004	8,223	41,155	49,378	10.70	61.60	34.30
2003	8,470	43,279	51,749	11.00	64.30	35.80
2002	9,078	46,252	55,330	11.70	68.30	38.10
2001	9,033	48,251	57,284	11.60	70.80	39.20
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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