Table 1. Suicide rates of citizens and non-citizens within the prison population and the general population.

Age	Prison population						P
	German citizenship			Foreign citizenship
	suicides	life years	SR	suicides	life years	SR
14–17	6	6,374	94.1	1	2,370	42.2
18–20	30	33,167	90.5	8	9,344	85.6
21–24	39	44,814	87.0	6	20,969	28.6	*
25–29	52	95,046	54.7	8	35,442	22.6	*
30–39	114	142,771	79.8	35	59,730	58.6
40–49	69	99,870	69.1	7	25,494	27.5	*
50–59	46	43,382	106.0	4	7,679	52.1
Total	356	465,424	76.5	69	161,028	42.8	**
Age	General population						P
	German citizenship			Foreign citizenship
	suicides	life years	SR	suicides	life years	SR
14–17	1,002	22,839,209	4.4	52	2,304,992	2.3	**
18–20	2,118	17,852,912	11.9	154	1,913,213	8.1	**
21–24	3,433	24,260,371	14.2	302	3,321,560	9.1	**
25–29	4,496	29,372,173	15.3	489	5,385,717	9.1	**
30–39	12,373	69,454,877	17.8	1,053	11,468,500	9.2	**
40–49	19,836	85,294,917	23.3	833	8,556,642	9.7	**
50–59	18,298	70,296,259	26.0	598	5,923,147	10.1	**
Total	61,556	319,370,718	19.3	3,481	38,873,771	9.0	**

SR = suicide rate; asterisk indicates significant results with P < 0.05 (*) / P < 0.01 (**).