Suicide rate

The number of suicide deaths per one hundred thousand thousand inhabitants. To allow for a comparison over the years, standardisation takes place by converting figures from one year to another (standard) year, based on age or sex. In this news release, the age composition of the Dutch population in 2023 is used as a standard.

In the first chart, suicide mortality rates for the years 1970-2022 have been converted from one year to another, so that each year in this series contains the (virtual) figure as if the age composition in that year were the same as in 2023. Through standardisation, changes in the age composition of the population are taken into account, which enables comparison over time and shows the actual increase or decrease in suicide rates.

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