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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2017 Nov 1;59(4):460–482. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12831

Table 1.

Youth suicide rates per 100,000 persons in selected countries by age

Year 5–14 years 15–29 years*
Lithuania 2015 1.3 24.3
New Zealand 2012 1.4 20.7
Finland 2014 0.2 17.7
Japan 2014 0.8 15.8
Latvia 2014 0.3 15.5
Uzbekistan 2014 2.8 14.5
Sweden 2015 0.8 13.3
Iceland 2015 - 13.1
United States of America 2014 1.0 13.0
Ireland 2013 0.3 13.0
Republic of Korea 2013 0.8 12.9
Trinidad and Tobago 2010 1.1 12.7
Mauritius 2014 1.6 12.6
Belgium 2013 0.4 12.4
Estonia 2014 1.5 12.3
Canada 2012 0.8 11.0
Chile 2014 1.1 10.3
Australia 2014 0.7 10.2
Colombia 2013 1.1 9.6
Costa Rica 2014 1.0 9.3
Austria 2014 0.4 9.2
Norway 2014 0.3 9.2
Hungary 2014 0.2 9.0
Czech Republic 2015 0.7 9.0
Slovenia 2015 0.5 8.8
Switzerland 2013 0.4 8.6
Republic of Moldova 2015 0.7 8.1
Romania 2015 0.7 7.6
Netherlands 2015 0.4 7.3
Slovakia 2014 0.1 7.2
Kyrgyzstan 2015 2.3 7.2
Mexico 2014 0.9 7.1
Croatia 2015 0.7 6.9
Germany 2014 0.3 6.7
Cuba 2014 0.8 6.1
United Kingdom 2014 0.2 6.0
St Vincent & the Grenadines 2015 1.2 4.9
Denmark 2014 0.2 4.8
Israel 2014 0.4 4.2
Italy 2012 0.1 3.8
Luxembourg 2014 0.8 3.8
Spain 2014 0.2 3.8
Macedonia 2013 0.3 3.6
Malta 2014 1.7 3.2
Brunei Darussalam 2014 - 1.7
Bahamas 2013 - 1.6

Note. Countries selected by availability of vital registration data. Dash (-) used to indicate missing data.

*

Rank-ordered by 15–29 suicide rates (All).