In 2012 around 29,735 suicides occurred in Russia, 1,409 less than in 2011. In 2012, on average 81 Russians committed suicide every day.
Russia reported 20.8 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 9.87 suicides per 100,000 people.
Russia has a very high suicide rate compared to other countries.
Of the 29,735 recorded suicide cases in 2012, 24,275 were men suicides and 5,460 were women. Men have a very high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 36.6 per 100,000 men and for women 7.1 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 16,247 homicides in Russia, there are more suicides than homicides. For every homicide there were 1.8 suicides.
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