Table 4. Suicides per year in Korea from 2017 to 2020.

Year	2017	2018	2019	2020
Total	12,463 (24.3)	13,670 (26.6)	13,799 (26.9) [13,548.33 (26.4)] *	13,195 (25.7) [13,000.94 (25.3)]
Men	8,922 (34.9)	9,862 (38.5)	9,730 (38.0) [9,585.87 (37.4)]	9,093 (35.5) [9,356.38 (36.5)]
Women	3,541 (13.8)	3,808 (14.8)	4,069 (15.8) [4,059.31 (15.8)]	4,102 (15.9) [3,709.20 (14.4)]
Age ≤ 34	2,150 (10.7)	2,320 (11.8)	2,380 (12.4) [2,304.41 (12.0)]	2,597 (13.8) [2,060.88 (10.9)]
Age 35–49	3,431 (27.1)	3,847 (30.7)	3,728 (30.3) [3,714.21 (30.2)]	3,470 (28.8) [3,538.26 (29.4)]
Age 50–64	3,508 (30.5)	3,910 (33.1)	4,085 (33.7) [4,015.71 (33.1)]	3,736 (30.3) [4,064.02 (32.9)]
Age ≥ 65	3,372 (47.7)	3,593 (48.6)	3,600 (46.6) [3,481.45 (45.1)]	3,392 (41.7) [3,395.28 (41.7)]

Data are shown as the number of suicides (suicides per 100,000 population).

* indicates the sum of the expected number of suicides per month according to forecasting models (with 2019 as the validation period).