Table 3.

Suicide rates per 100,000 young persons aged 15-19 in 26 countries (areas) with data available for 1965-1999

	Males			Females			Total
	1965-79	1980-89	1990-99	1965-79	1980-89	1990-99	1965-79	1980-89	1990-99
Mauritius	5.08	6.16	11.69	9.02	11.06	13.17	7.04	8058	12.42
Canada	13.75	20.74	19.85	3.38	3.65	4.95	8.66	12.40	12.59
USA	10.22	15.30	16.48	2.84	3.66	3.38	6.57	9.59	10.11
Hong Kong	3.01	3.38	5.87	4.65	3.63	4.95	3.81	3.50	5.43
Japan	10.61	7.46	6.60	6.91	3.99	3.24	8.79	5.77	4.96
Singapore	4.99	5.19	6.33	7.48	7.42	4.37	6.20	6.27	5.38
Australia	9.12	14.13	16.89	3.50	3.05	4.15	6.37	8.72	10.68
New Zealand	7.49	17.51	28.60	2.96	4.24	9.80	5.28	11.01	19.33
Non-European countries	10.34	13.17	13.83	4.08	3.78	3.59	7.25	8.58	8.84
Austria	16.67	19.43	16.70	5.26	6.60	3.68	11.08	13.13	10.36
Bulgaria	7.55	10.22	12.20	5.15	5.89	4.25	6.38	8.11	8.32
Denmark	6.14	9.18	8.02	2.99	3.31	2.43	4.61	6.32	5.29
Finland	18.94	24.54	25.90	4.99	5.25	4.65	12.12	15.09	15.51
France	6.54	7.95	7.62	3.25	2.85	2.80	4.92	5.46	5.26
Greece	1.51	2.61	2.17	1.72	1.72	0.76	1.61	2.18	1.49
Hungary	19.59	16.23	13.81	8.01	6.82	3.94	13.92	11.67	9.00
Iceland	9.97	20.91	26.72	0.66	0.00	6.71	5.45	10.67	16.91
Ireland	2.57	6.80	14.96	0.68	1.12	3.09	1.65	4.03	9.17
Italy	2.52	2.93	4.23	1.87	1.05	1.35	2.20	2.01	2.82
Luxembourg	9.24	12.00	13.04	3.20	6.24	4.57	6.28	9.18	8.91
Netherlands	3.78	4.09	5.62	1.22	1.76	2.37	2.53	2.95	4.03
Norway	7.04	15.71	17.37	1.92	3.45	6.63	4.54	9.74	12.12
Portugal	4.83	5.30	2.88	3.77	4.62	1.68	4.30	4.96	2.29
Spain	1.89	4.03	4.85	0.79	1.16	1.43	1.35	2.63	3.18
Sweden	8.69	8.46	8.27	5.48	3.84	4.23	7.12	6.21	6.30
Switzerland	14.87	18.63	13.64	5.35	4.58	4.29	10.16	11.77	9.09
United Kingdom	3.49	4.95	5.92	1.84	1.42	1.65	2.68	3.23	3.85
European countries	5.50	6.61	7.13	2.67	2.35	2.26	4.11	4.53	4.75
All countries	9.12	11.41	12.14	3.73	3.40	3.26	6.46	7.49	7.82