Denis Foynes – Each year, over one million people die from suicide, that’s one person every 40 seconds.
In the last 45 years suicide rates have increased by 60% worldwide.
The following is a list of suicide rates by country according to the World Health Organization, in which a country’s rank is determined by its total rate deaths officially recorded as suicides in the most recent available year, 2011.
Here are the 20 countries with the highest suicide rates
Country Suicide Rate Per 100,000 People
20. France 26.4
19. Poland 27.8
18. Serbia 28.4
17. Republic Of Korea 29.6
16. Croatia 30.5
15. Finland 31.1
14. Belgium 31.2
13. Moldova 31.5
12. Guyana 33.8
11. Japan 34.8
10. Estonia 35.5
9. Ukraine 40.9
8. Latvia 42
7. Slovenia 42.1
6. Hungary 42.3
5. Sri Lanka 44.6
4. Kazakhstan 34.3
3. Russia 58.1
2. Belarus 63.3
1. Lithuania 68.1
