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Historical statistics

4.14 Deaths by suicide, by age and sex

Sex. Year	All ages	Age. Years
		-14	15-19	20-29	30-39	40-49	50-59	60-69	70-
	Number of deaths per year
Males
1931-1935	149	-	1	24	34	25	25	26	14
1941-1945	139	-	3	23	30	28	25	18	12
1951-1955	185	-	2	19	33	40	44	31	16
1956-1960	202	1	2	17	33	45	54	33	17
1961-1965	212	1	4	19	35	48	49	34	22
1966-1970	224	1	7	24	31	48	54	36	23
1971-1975	271	2	10	43	34	53	60	41	28
1976-1980	345	1	20	65	52	50	70	50	37
1981-1985	424	4	25	84	74	61	76	59	41
1986-1990	476	4	29	99	83	84	62	61	54
1991-1995	437	5	28	91	77	81	50	50	55
1996-2000	401	4	22	86	71	71	56	41	50
2001-2004	378	2	21	71	72	67	60	36	49
Females
1931-1935	38	-	1	5	9	8	8	3	4
1941-1945	42	-	1	6	9	8	9	5	4
1951-1955	56	-	1	4	7	12	14	12	6
1956-1960	53	-	0	3	6	13	16	9	6
1961-1965	62	-	1	5	8	12	19	10	7
1966-1970	75	-	2	6	8	19	20	12	8
1971-1975	94	-	3	17	11	16	21	18	8
1976-1980	128	-	4	24	17	21	31	21	10
1981-1985	154	-	6	20	27	25	31	28	17
1986-1990	174	1	8	21	31	34	26	29	24
1991-1995	155	2	7	18	25	31	21	24	27
1996-2000	141	1	10	19	25	29	23	16	18
2001-2004	144	2	9	21	21	34	25	17	15
	Deaths per 100 000 population
Males
1931-1935	10.8	-	0.9	9.8	16.8	16.7	21.3	31.0	20.3
1941-1945	9.4	-	2.3	8.3	12.8	14.2	17.9	17.6	14.8
1951-1955	11.1	-	2.1	7.9	12.5	17.3	23.7	25.0	18.1
1956-1960	11.5	0.0	2.0	8.0	12.9	18.5	26.6	23.0	15.9
1961-1965	11.6	0.1	2.9	8.5	15.2	18.9	22.6	20.9	19.2
1966-1970	11.6	0.2	4.5	8.4	15.0	19.0	23.2	20.6	17.4
1971-1975	13.8	0.4	6.4	13.8	15.7	23.8	25.0	22.0	19.4
1976-1980	17.1	0.2	12.6	20.6	19.1	24.6	30.0	25.3	23.6
1981-1985	20.8	0.9	14.8	26.4	23.6	28.6	36.2	28.7	23.8
1986-1990	22.9	1.0	17.3	29.7	26.0	31.2	32.3	30.5	29.2
1991-1995	20.5	1.2	19.2	26.6	23.7	26.1	24.6	27.6	27.8
1996-2000	18.3	0.9	16.2	26.9	20.8	22.5	21.7	24.2	24.6
2001-2004	16.8	0.4	14.9	24.2	20.3	20.7	20.2	20.2	24.1
Females
1931-1935	2.6	-	0.6	2.0	4.3	5.0	6.2	3.2	3.9
1941-1945	2.8	-	0.6	2.1	4.0	3.9	5.7	4.6	4.1
1951-1955	3.3	-	0.6	1.8	2.7	5.2	7.3	8.2	4.5
1956-1960	3.0	-	0.4	1.5	2.6	5.2	7.6	5.3	4.6
1961-1965	3.4	-	0.7	2.2	3.6	4.9	8.3	5.8	4.5
1966-1970	3.4	-	1.5	2.2	4.0	7.8	8.0	6.0	4.9
1971-1975	4.7	-	2.0	5.8	5.3	7.3	8.5	8.6	4.0
1976-1980	6.3	-	2.7	8.0	6.6	10.6	13.0	9.5	4.4
1981-1985	7.4	-	3.8	6.6	9.2	12.0	14.6	12.2	6.6
1986-1990	8.2	0.3	5.0	6.6	10.3	13.3	13.4	13.1	8.5
1991-1995	7.1	0.5	5.0	5.5	8.1	10.5	10.4	12.1	8.9
1996-2000	6.3	0.2	7.7	6.1	7.7	9.6	9.2	8.8	5.8
2001-2004	6.3	0.5	6.7	7.3	6.2	10.9	8.7	9.0	4.9

Source: NOS Causes of Death.

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