Table 2. Number and rates of suicide in prisoners compared with the general population.

	Total number of prison suicides, both genders (2011–14)	Annual suicide rate per 100 000 prisoners (including pretrial detainees)*		Annual suicide rate per 100 000 general population aged 30–49 years†	Rate ratio
		Rate	95% CI		Rate	95% CI	p value
Eastern Europe
Croatia	2	10	0–29	14·6	0·7	0·1–11·4	0·75
Czech Republic	44	54	39–70	17·8	3·1	1·7–5·6	0·00027
Poland	59*	24	21–28	24·6	1·0	0·6–1·6	0·93
Northern Europe
Denmark	14	91	60–122	12·9	7·0	4·1–11·8	<0·0001
Finland	13	103	100–105	21·0	4·8	2·4–20·2	0·0038
Iceland	1	165	0–487	28·4	5·8	0·1–297·2	0·40
Norway	26	180	98–262	12·9	14·0	6·4–30·5	<0·0001
Sweden	26	104	90–118	14·1	7·4	3·4–16·1	<0·0001
Western Europe
Belgium	57	114	99–129	24·1	4·7	2·8–8·0	<0·0001
England and Wales	284	83	66–100	13·6	6·1	4·8–7·7	<0·0001
France	467	176	169–183	19·3	9·1	8·3–10·0	<0·0001
Germany	220	81	75–88	12·7	6·4	4·9–8·4	<0·0001
Ireland	8	47	32–63	15·7	3·0	0·8–12·2	0·34
Netherlands	43	99	53–145	13·0	7·6	4·2–14·0	<0·0001
Northern Ireland	2‡	29	0–106	20·1	1·5	0·1–23·4	0·65
Scotland	22	69	44–93	26·2	2·6	1·1–6·1	0·027
Switzerland	26	98	49–146	11·5	8·5	3·9–18·9	<0·0001
Southern Europe
Italy	204	81	69–93	6·7	12·1	9·1–16·0	<0·0001
Portugal	59	108	69–147	10·4	10·4	6·2–17·5	<0·0001
Spain	95	43	30–55	7·8	5·5	3·7–8·2	<0·0001
Australasia
Australia	37‡	40	29–51	17·2	2·3	1·3–4·1	0·0069
New Zealand	23	67	18–115	13·2	5·1	2·2–11·6	0·00015
North America
Canada	31‡	27	0–48	11·4	2·3	1·2–4·3	<0·0001
USA	2143	23	21–26	17·4	1·3	1·2–1·5	<0·0001

^*Annual rates calculated based on however many years available between 2011 and 2014.

^†Annual rates for the year 2012.

^‡Total in a 3 year period (2011–13).