Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns Path: access.usask.ca!decwrl!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!hp-cv!hp-pcd!hpcvsnz!deanp From: deanp@lsid.hp.com (Dean Payne) Subject: International Suicide Rates Sender: news@hpcvsnz.cv.hp.com (News ) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 06:28:20 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0.5] Lines: 61 [Are my posts reaching the outside world yet?] This is a repost from last year. Figures are from two different sources. [1] [2] Hungary 39.9 41.3 Finland 26.7 27.6 Denmark 26.8 26.0 Austria 22.6 24.4 Switzerland 20.7 22.4 Belgium 21.0 22.3 France 20.9 20.8 Ukraine SSR 19.6 USSR 19.1 Byelorussia SSR 19.1 Japan 18.1 18.6 Luxembourg 18.4 Sweden 17.3 18.3 Czechoslovakia 18.1 17.7 China 17.6 (certain urban areas only) West Germany 15.5 17.6 Yugoslavia 17.2 Bulgaria 16.0 16.2 Norway 15.4 15.5 New Zealand 13.1 14.1 Iceland 14.0 Canada 13.9 13.5 Australia 14.0 13.3 United States 12.5 12.6 Poland 13.0 12.2 UK: Scotland 11.4 11.7 Honk Kong 11.0 Netherlands 10.8 10.3 Northern Ireland 9.7 UK: England & Wales 8.0 8.4 Portugal 7.9 8.0 Italy 7.6 7.9 Ireland 6.9 Israel 6.5 Spain 6.6 6.5 Greece 4.1 Malta 2.6 [1] Deaths rates per 100,000 population from "suicide and self- inflicted injury," as listed in the 1991 'Statistical Abstracts of the United States,' which credits the World Health Organization, Geneva, '1989 World Health Statistics Annual.' Most figures are for 1987 or 1988, but a few date back to 1986 or 1985. [2] Suicide rates listed in the 1989 UN Demographic Yearbook. Most data is for 1986, 1987, or 1988. I listed all of Europe, and some selected others. Cuba, Romania, and East Germany did not report violent deaths. The other continents show a great many third-world countries with very low rates, enough to make me question whether the figures can be compared the figures above. Because of this, I haven't yet taken the time to transcribe them.