Written answers
Tuesday, 28 February 2006
Department of Health and Children
Suicide Incidence
11:00 pm
Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 186: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide international suicide figures displaying the position of Ireland in such a large league of countries. [7835/06]
Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Suicide rates for the European region are provided by the World Health Organisation. The rates are age-standardised which allows comparison taking into account differences in population age structure between countries. The figures requested by the Deputy are set out in the following table and indicate the latest available reporting year for each country.
| Standardised Death Rates per 100,000 for Suicide and Self Inflicted Injury, WHO European Region. | ||
| Country | Standardised Death Rate per 100,000 population | Year data relates to |
| Lithuania | 38.92 | 2004 |
| Russian Federation | 31.74 | 2004 |
| Belarus | 31.56 | 2004 |
| Kazakhstan | 31.49 | 2003 |
| Slovenia | 25.00 | 2003 |
| Hungary | 24.81 | 2003 |
| CIS | 24.55 | 2004 |
| Estonia | 23.66 | 2003 |
| Latvia | 22.34 | 2004 |
| Ukraine | 22.03 | 2004 |
| Belgium | 19.60 | 1997 |
| Finland | 19.32 | 2004 |
| Switzerland | 17.35 | 2002 |
| Republic of Moldova | 17.03 | 2004 |
| Croatia | 16.89 | 2004 |
| Serbia and Montenegro | 16.64 | 2002 |
| France | 16.32 | 2002 |
| Austria | 15.22 | 2004 |
| European Region | 15.09 | 2004 |
| Poland | 14.67 | 2003 |
| CARK | 14.16 | 2002 |
| Czech Republic | 14.02 | 2004 |
| Luxembourg | 13.24 | 2004 |
| Slovakia | 12.96 | 2002 |
| Denmark | 12.18 | 2001 |
| Sweden | 12.15 | 2002 |
| Romania | 11.96 | 2004 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 11.43 | 2004 |
| Ireland | 11.23 | 2002 |
| Bulgaria | 11.02 | 2004 |
| Germany | 10.97 | 2004 |
| Turkmenistan | 10.90 | 1998 |
| Norway | 10.84 | 2003 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 9.94 | 1991 |
| Iceland | 9.67 | 2003 |
| Portugal | 9.36 | 2003 |
| Netherlands | 8.65 | 2004 |
| Uzbekistan | 7.33 | 2002 |
| Spain | 7.06 | 2003 |
| Israel | 7.05 | 2003 |
| TFYR Macedonia | 7.01 | 2003 |
| United Kingdom | 6.38 | 2003 |
| Italy | 5.92 | 2001 |
| Malta | 5.38 | 2004 |
| Albania | 4.38 | 2003 |
| San Marino | 3.62 | 2000 |
| Tajikistan | 3.40 | 2001 |
| Greece | 3.07 | 2003 |
| Armenia | 2.13 | 2003 |
| Georgia | 2.05 | 2001 |
| Azerbaijan | 1.41 | 2002 |
There are no data available for Azerbaijan, Andorra, Cyprus, Monaco and Turkey.
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