fostering socio-emotional life skills in adolescents and.educating the media on responsible reporting of suicide.limiting access to the means of suicide, such as highly hazardous pesticides and firearms.The four strategies of this approach are: To support countries in their efforts, WHO is today releasing comprehensive guidance for implementing its LIVE LIFE approach to suicide prevention. A significant acceleration in the reduction of suicides is needed to meet the SDG target of a one-third reduction in the global suicide rate by 2030. Currently only 38 countries are known to have a national suicide prevention strategy. Suicide rates fell in the 20 years between 20, with the global rate decreasing by 36%, with decreases ranging from 17% in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to 47% in the European Region and 49% in the Western Pacific.īut in the Americas Region, rates increased by 17% in the same time period.Īlthough some countries have placed suicide prevention high on their agendas, too many countries remain uncommitted. Globally, the suicide rate is decreasing in the Americas it is going up The lowest suicide rate was in the Eastern Mediterranean region (6.4 per 100 000). Suicide rates in the WHO African (11.2 per 100 000), European (10.5 per 100 000) and South-East Asia (10.2 per 100 000) regions were higher than the global average (9.0 per 100 000) in 2019. For females, the highest suicide rates are found in lower-middle-income countries (7.1 per 100 000). Suicide rates among men are generally higher in high-income countries (16.5 per 100 000). More than twice as many males die due to suicide as females (12.6 per 100 000 males compared with 5.4 per 100 000 females). Rates vary, between countries, regions, and between males and females. The new guidance that WHO is releasing today provides a clear path for stepping up suicide prevention efforts.”Īmong young people aged 15-29, suicide was the fourth leading cause of death after road injury, tuberculosis and interpersonal violence. Our attention to suicide prevention is even more important now, after many months living with the COVID-19 pandemic, with many of the risk factors for suicide ̶ job loss, financial stress and social isolation – still very much present. “We cannot – and must not – ignore suicide,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization. In 2019, more than 700 000 people died by suicide: one in every 100 deaths, prompting WHO to produce new guidance to help countries improve suicide prevention and care. Every year, more people die as a result of suicide than HIV, malaria or breast cancer ̶ or war and homicide. Suicide remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, according to WHO’s latest estimates, published today in “Suicide worldwide in 2019”.
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