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Table 94.1

Elderly suicide rates in selected countries by age and sex

Country	Year	Age 65–74 years			Age 75+ years
Country	Year	M	F	All	M	F	All
Africa
Mauritius	2003	9.5	7.6	8.4	8.9	0.0	3.4
Zimbabwe	1990	Data available for aggregated 65 + age group only: 33.6 8.3 19.9
Asia
China (Hong Kong SAR)	2002	26.1	12.9	19.5	44.0	31.9	36.8
China (mainland, selected rural and urban areas)	1999	43.7	39.2	41.3	84.2	61.2	70.7
China (mainland, selected rural areas)	1999	83.8	70.4	76.8	139.7	102.2	117.6
China (mainland, selected urban areas)	1999	16.5	17.1	16.8	39.9	27.7	32.8
Georgia	2001	9.0	2.4	5.1	5.2	5.2	5.2
Iran	1991	0.4	0.2	0.3	2.0	0.0	1.1
Japan	2003	44.9	20.9	32.1	45.2	24.6	32.1
Kazakhstan	2003	69.5	16.2	37.2	60.5	23.1	33.4
Kuwait	2002	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kyrgystan	2004	29.0	0.0	12.4	32.7	12.1	18.7
Philippines	1993	1.5	0.8	1.2	3.2	2.8	3.0
Republic of Korea	2002	66.2	26.1	42.6	130.5	61.4	83.4
Singapore	2003	19.0	17.1	18.0	57.5	29.7	41.2
Sri Lanka	1991	Data available for aggregated 65+ age group only: 87.0 21.0
Tajikistan	2001	2.4	3.4	2.9	3.7	4.6	4.3
Thailand	2002	17.2	4.6	10.3	16.1	5.0	9.6
Turkmenistan	1998	10.6	4.1	6.9	12.9	17.5	16.1
Uzbekistan	2002	9.3	4.0	6.4	13.7	6.1	8.7
Australia and Western Pacific
Australia	2002	17.6	5.1	11.1	22.1	5.2	11.9
New Zealand	2000	20.7	1.5	10.8	20.7	3.2	9.9
Europe
Albania	2003	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.1	12.2	8.6
Armenia	2003	4.1	1.5	2.6	9.2	4.8	6.3
Austria	2004	47.6	16.0	30.3	93.1	17.5	42.2
Azerbaijan	2002	5.2	2.3	3.6	4.4	1.1	2.2
Belarus	2003	91.0	18.3	45.2	81.1	20.8	36.5
Belgium	1997	35.5	13.6	23.4	86.8	15.6	39.7
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1991	12.9	6.5	9.0	32.7	11.1	19.8
Bulgaria	2004	28.6	15.5	21.2	68.9	17.9	37.7
Croatia	2004	63.9	18.0	37.5	125.3	23.2	56.2
Czech Republic	2004	31.0	10.2	19.1	58.0	15.1	29.5
Denmark	2001	25.4	16.7	20.8	58.7	20.0	34.3
Estonia	2002	62.9	11.0	30.4	81.5	23.1	38.1
Finland	2004	44.0	8.5	24.6	39.6	8.0	18.4
France	2002	38.2	13.4	24.6	72.4	16.4	36.5
Germany	2004	28.3	10.1	18.6	55.8	17.1	29.7
Greece	2003	7.4	1.9	4.4	10.1	1.2	5.0
Hungary	2003	78.5	20.1	43.2	110.4	36.1	60.4
Iceland	2003	11.4	0.0	5.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ireland	2002	19.7	3.1	11.0	9.7	2.5	5.3
Israel	2003	18.5	6.4	11.8	23.3	5.6	12.7
Italy	2002	18.5	5.0	11.1	31.9	5.8	15.2
Latvia	2004	64.7	8.4	29.3	73.2	22.4	35.4
Lithuania	2004	91.9	14.6	43.9	80.2	27.8	42.9
Luxemburg	2004	18.0	20.5	19.4	72.6	16.2	35.5
Macedonia FYR	2003	22.1	8.8	14.9	41.2	17.8	27.8
Malta	2004	14.4	0.0	6.4	23.8	15.3	18.6
Netherlands	2004	11.6	5.2	8.2	22.6	9.1	14.0
Norway	2003	17.3	5.8	11.2	20.6	5.0	10.8
Poland	2003	32.7	6.6	17.4	29.4	6.0	13.5
Portugal	2003	33.1	7.7	19.0	68.9	12.5	34.0
Republic of Moldova	2004	40.5	9.4	21.7	38.1	10.8	20.0
Romania	2004	31.2	7.9	17.9	29.1	7.7	15.8
Russian Federation	2004	80.9	15.4	39.3	88.9	26.0	41.7
Serbia and Montenegro	2002	59.6	20.9	38.2	101.9	36.3	61.3
Slovakia	2002	28.4	4.1	13.9	60.9	9.1	26.5
Slovenia	2003	88.7	25.1	52.2	115.1	27.9	53.8
Spain	2003	20.9	6.0	12.8	42.9	8.1	21.3
Sweden	2002	28.8	8.4	18.0	36.5	10.1	20.3
Switzerland	2002	42.9	16.8	28.6	82.6	31.0	49.7
Ukraine	2004	58.4	11.1	29.2	66.5	18.1	31.2
United Kingdom	2002	8.7	3.4	5.9	10.4	3.7	6.1
North and South America
Argentina	1996	22.2	5.2	12.6	42.4	7.7	20.5
Belize	1995	0.0	0.0	0.0	50.0	0.0	25.0
Brazil	1995	15.6	3.2	8.8	18.3	3.1	9.5
Canada	2002	19.1	3.4	10.9	23.7	2.7	10.7
Chile	1994	20.2	1.8	9.8	26.7	1.4	10.9
Colombia	1994	9.7	1.5	5.3	13.4	0.7	6.3
Costa Rica	1995	9.5	0.0	4.6	8.4	0.0	3.7
Cuba	1996	62.6	26.0	43.8	113.2	27.3	68.0
Ecuador	1995	9.1	2.4	5.6	10.7	1.0	5.2
El Salvador	1993	9.3	3.3	6.0	19.9	8.8	13.2
Guyana	1994	20.0	8.3	13.6	25.0	0.0	10.0
Mexico	1995	9.7	1.2	5.1	18.0	1.0	8.6
Nicaragua	1994	7.3	0.0	3.3	18.8	4.2	10.0
Paraguay	1994	17.4	4.9	10.3	9.0	5.7	7.0
Puerto Rico	1992	31.6	4.5	17.0	24.3	2.4	16.7
Suriname	1992	0.0	16.7	9.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Trinidad and Tobago	1994	38.9	12.1	25.5	21.2	0.0	10.0
United States	2002	24.7	4.1	13.5	40.7	4.1	17.8
Uruguay	1990	29.2	16.8	22.7	71.2	10.0	32.4
Venezuela	1994	24.8	2.9	13.0	28.6	2.0	13.2

Country	Year	Age 65–74 years			Age 75+ years
Country	Year	M	F	All	M	F	All
Africa
Mauritius	2003	9.5	7.6	8.4	8.9	0.0	3.4
Zimbabwe	1990	Data available for aggregated 65 + age group only: 33.6 8.3 19.9
Asia
China (Hong Kong SAR)	2002	26.1	12.9	19.5	44.0	31.9	36.8
China (mainland, selected rural and urban areas)	1999	43.7	39.2	41.3	84.2	61.2	70.7
China (mainland, selected rural areas)	1999	83.8	70.4	76.8	139.7	102.2	117.6
China (mainland, selected urban areas)	1999	16.5	17.1	16.8	39.9	27.7	32.8
Georgia	2001	9.0	2.4	5.1	5.2	5.2	5.2
Iran	1991	0.4	0.2	0.3	2.0	0.0	1.1
Japan	2003	44.9	20.9	32.1	45.2	24.6	32.1
Kazakhstan	2003	69.5	16.2	37.2	60.5	23.1	33.4
Kuwait	2002	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kyrgystan	2004	29.0	0.0	12.4	32.7	12.1	18.7
Philippines	1993	1.5	0.8	1.2	3.2	2.8	3.0
Republic of Korea	2002	66.2	26.1	42.6	130.5	61.4	83.4
Singapore	2003	19.0	17.1	18.0	57.5	29.7	41.2
Sri Lanka	1991	Data available for aggregated 65+ age group only: 87.0 21.0
Tajikistan	2001	2.4	3.4	2.9	3.7	4.6	4.3
Thailand	2002	17.2	4.6	10.3	16.1	5.0	9.6
Turkmenistan	1998	10.6	4.1	6.9	12.9	17.5	16.1
Uzbekistan	2002	9.3	4.0	6.4	13.7	6.1	8.7
Australia and Western Pacific
Australia	2002	17.6	5.1	11.1	22.1	5.2	11.9
New Zealand	2000	20.7	1.5	10.8	20.7	3.2	9.9
Europe
Albania	2003	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.1	12.2	8.6
Armenia	2003	4.1	1.5	2.6	9.2	4.8	6.3
Austria	2004	47.6	16.0	30.3	93.1	17.5	42.2
Azerbaijan	2002	5.2	2.3	3.6	4.4	1.1	2.2
Belarus	2003	91.0	18.3	45.2	81.1	20.8	36.5
Belgium	1997	35.5	13.6	23.4	86.8	15.6	39.7
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1991	12.9	6.5	9.0	32.7	11.1	19.8
Bulgaria	2004	28.6	15.5	21.2	68.9	17.9	37.7
Croatia	2004	63.9	18.0	37.5	125.3	23.2	56.2
Czech Republic	2004	31.0	10.2	19.1	58.0	15.1	29.5
Denmark	2001	25.4	16.7	20.8	58.7	20.0	34.3
Estonia	2002	62.9	11.0	30.4	81.5	23.1	38.1
Finland	2004	44.0	8.5	24.6	39.6	8.0	18.4
France	2002	38.2	13.4	24.6	72.4	16.4	36.5
Germany	2004	28.3	10.1	18.6	55.8	17.1	29.7
Greece	2003	7.4	1.9	4.4	10.1	1.2	5.0
Hungary	2003	78.5	20.1	43.2	110.4	36.1	60.4
Iceland	2003	11.4	0.0	5.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ireland	2002	19.7	3.1	11.0	9.7	2.5	5.3
Israel	2003	18.5	6.4	11.8	23.3	5.6	12.7
Italy	2002	18.5	5.0	11.1	31.9	5.8	15.2
Latvia	2004	64.7	8.4	29.3	73.2	22.4	35.4
Lithuania	2004	91.9	14.6	43.9	80.2	27.8	42.9
Luxemburg	2004	18.0	20.5	19.4	72.6	16.2	35.5
Macedonia FYR	2003	22.1	8.8	14.9	41.2	17.8	27.8
Malta	2004	14.4	0.0	6.4	23.8	15.3	18.6
Netherlands	2004	11.6	5.2	8.2	22.6	9.1	14.0
Norway	2003	17.3	5.8	11.2	20.6	5.0	10.8
Poland	2003	32.7	6.6	17.4	29.4	6.0	13.5
Portugal	2003	33.1	7.7	19.0	68.9	12.5	34.0
Republic of Moldova	2004	40.5	9.4	21.7	38.1	10.8	20.0
Romania	2004	31.2	7.9	17.9	29.1	7.7	15.8
Russian Federation	2004	80.9	15.4	39.3	88.9	26.0	41.7
Serbia and Montenegro	2002	59.6	20.9	38.2	101.9	36.3	61.3
Slovakia	2002	28.4	4.1	13.9	60.9	9.1	26.5
Slovenia	2003	88.7	25.1	52.2	115.1	27.9	53.8
Spain	2003	20.9	6.0	12.8	42.9	8.1	21.3
Sweden	2002	28.8	8.4	18.0	36.5	10.1	20.3
Switzerland	2002	42.9	16.8	28.6	82.6	31.0	49.7
Ukraine	2004	58.4	11.1	29.2	66.5	18.1	31.2
United Kingdom	2002	8.7	3.4	5.9	10.4	3.7	6.1
North and South America
Argentina	1996	22.2	5.2	12.6	42.4	7.7	20.5
Belize	1995	0.0	0.0	0.0	50.0	0.0	25.0
Brazil	1995	15.6	3.2	8.8	18.3	3.1	9.5
Canada	2002	19.1	3.4	10.9	23.7	2.7	10.7
Chile	1994	20.2	1.8	9.8	26.7	1.4	10.9
Colombia	1994	9.7	1.5	5.3	13.4	0.7	6.3
Costa Rica	1995	9.5	0.0	4.6	8.4	0.0	3.7
Cuba	1996	62.6	26.0	43.8	113.2	27.3	68.0
Ecuador	1995	9.1	2.4	5.6	10.7	1.0	5.2
El Salvador	1993	9.3	3.3	6.0	19.9	8.8	13.2
Guyana	1994	20.0	8.3	13.6	25.0	0.0	10.0
Mexico	1995	9.7	1.2	5.1	18.0	1.0	8.6
Nicaragua	1994	7.3	0.0	3.3	18.8	4.2	10.0
Paraguay	1994	17.4	4.9	10.3	9.0	5.7	7.0
Puerto Rico	1992	31.6	4.5	17.0	24.3	2.4	16.7
Suriname	1992	0.0	16.7	9.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Trinidad and Tobago	1994	38.9	12.1	25.5	21.2	0.0	10.0
United States	2002	24.7	4.1	13.5	40.7	4.1	17.8
Uruguay	1990	29.2	16.8	22.7	71.2	10.0	32.4
Venezuela	1994	24.8	2.9	13.0	28.6	2.0	13.2

Source: World Health Organization, 2006.

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