INTERNATIONAL SUICIDE/HOMICIDE TABLE*
(*Ranked according to highest combined suicide-murder rate; nations ranked higher than the U.S. in either suicide or murder rates are in bold face)
|
Country |
Year |
Suicide |
Murder |
Combined |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ESTONIA |
1995 |
39.99 |
22.11 |
62.1 |
|
RUSSIA |
1992 |
26.6 |
15.3 |
41.9 |
|
LATVIA |
1990 |
26. |
9.2 |
35.2 |
|
LITHUANIA |
1990 |
26. |
7.5 |
33.5 |
|
FINLAND |
1994-95 |
27.3 |
3.3 |
30.6 |
|
UKRAINE |
1990 |
20.6 |
8.0 |
28.6 |
|
DENMARK |
1991 |
22. |
5.0 |
27.0 |
|
AUSTRIA |
1991 |
22.3 |
1.5 |
23.8 |
|
SWITZERLAND* |
1994-95 |
20.8 |
1.1 |
21.9 |
|
FRANCE |
1990 |
20.2 |
1.1 |
21.3 |
|
BELGIUM |
1987 |
19.3 |
1.4 |
20.7 |
|
UNITED STATES* |
1995-96 |
11.5 |
7.3 |
18.8 |
|
SWEDEN |
1990 |
17.2 |
1.3 |
18.5 |
|
GERMANY |
1995 |
15.8 |
1.8 |
17.6 |
|
LUXEMBOURG |
1991 |
15.1 |
2.1 |
17.2 |
|
NEW ZEALAND |
1989 |
13.9 |
1.9 |
15.8 |
|
CANADA |
1995 |
12.9 |
2.0 |
14.9 |
|
ISRAEL |
1989 |
7.3 |
1.2 |
8.5 |
*All information in this table dated before 1993 comes from the U.N. Demographic Yearbooks for 1993 and 1992. All information dated 1993 and thereafter comes from a draft study prepared for the U.N. Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice's Vienna Session 28 April-9 May, 1997, except: a) the U.S. homicide figure comes from FBI preliminary data for 1996, and b) the Swiss homicide and suicide rates come from the Swiss national police.