Table 5. Comparison between projected suicide rates (per 100,000 population) for 2020^* and the World Health Organization (WHO) Mental Health Action Plan target^† for women, stratified by age group.

Region	15-29 years		30-39 years		40-59 years		≥ 60 years
	Projection 2020	WHO 2020	Projection 2020	WHO 2020	Projection 2020	WHO 2020	Projection 2020	WHO 2020
Brazil	2.36	2.02	2.97	2.24	3.73	3.19	2.85	2.80
North
Acre	2.89	4.93	3.61	3.15	1.72	0.00	0.09	0.00
Amapá	0.83	2.54	1.36	0.00	2.08	3.07	1.46	0.00
Amazonas	7.57	4.24	3.20	3.39	6.11	0.56	1.18	2.39
Pará	2.57	1.53	1.53	1.33	1.39	1.27	0.96	1.57
Rondônia	3.12	1.50	5.20	4.48	3.01	2.01	1.84	0.00
Roraima	5.68	5.09	4.18	5.03	2.12	2.23	2.71	7.61
Tocantins	2.79	3.54	2.96	2.35	0.00	1.30	5.91	1.53
Northeast
Alagoas	2.63	1.80	1.68	1.02	4.02	2.40	1.60	2.24
Bahia	1.52	1.13	1.75	1.34	2.23	1.95	2.06	2.46
Ceará	2.36	2.69	2.91	2.49	3.47	3.35	5.36	3.76
Maranhão	2.12	1.80	1.65	0.52	2.73	1.95	2.22	2.45
Paraíba	3.39	2.10	0.96	2.24	3.80	2.92	2.24	2.90
Pernambuco	0.13	1.64	2.07	0.83	2.40	1.89	4.84	1.81
Piauí	2.75	3.63	2.40	3.10	6.00	1.61	4.09	7.79
Rio Grande do Norte	1.83	1.00	2.20	1.68	2.48	2.64	2.97	3.18
Sergipe	1.30	3.26	0.00	1.99	2.96	4.23	5.38	2.52
Center-West
Distrito Federal	2.50	2.46	2.28	3.65	3.56	2.60	2.11	1.30
Mato Grosso	0.00	1.93	1.76	2.11	3.46	5.69	2.86	2.79
Mato Grosso do Sul	5.44	4.89	3.44	5.74	3.42	3.59	3.80	3.33
Goiás	2.89	2.36	3.53	2.33	3.88	4.37	2.99	3.36
Southeast
Espírito Santo	1.76	0.74	6.18	4.02	4.11	4.08	2.26	3.60
Minas Gerais	1.14	2.05	2.42	2.34	5.84	4.19	5.43	2.76
Rio de Janeiro	1.34	1.08	1.84	1.72	2.08	1.91	1.63	1.36
São Paulo	3.95	1.96	0.15	2.05	2.84	2.94	2.25	2.07
South
Paraná	2.03	1.78	3.44	2.40	3.56	3.52	2.63	2.68
Santa Catarina	2.71	1.70	7.58	3.67	10.45	6.75	5.33	5.70
Rio Grande do Sul	4.05	3.17	4.22	3.87	7.92	5.77	6.54	6.23

^*Using polynomial regression models and a 1997-2015 time series.

^†WHO Mental Health Action Plan target: a 10% reduction in suicide rate by 2020, using 2013-year rates as baseline.