The reason for the higher rate among men was unclear.
Suicides by women decline after age 60, but the rate among men keeps climbing.
The 10percentt jobless rate among men is a quarter higher than the 7.6percentt rate for women.
Breaking down the statistics, the most worrying trend is a rise in the rate among men aged 40-44.
The suicide rate among men was 20.7 per 100,000, compared to 5.8 per 100,000 among women.
12. Poland — 23.8% In Poland, the smoking rate among men is 30.9%, against just 17.9% for women.
That speaks of an ugly truth: while outward migration to towns plays its part, a punishing mortality rate among men has devastated places such as Rybaki.
The suicide rate among men – last year the rate was three-and-a-half times that of women – has long been a concern.
Starting in 2006, however, the suicide rate among men and women between the ages of 45 and 54 was the highest of any age group.
More than three-fourths of the population is literate; the rate among men is somewhat higher than that among women, but the gap is narrowing.
The highest rate among men was in the Czech Republic (5.5% of new diagnoses in 2012), followed by Jordan and Argentina (4.5%) and then the UK and Malta (4.4%).
