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    "additionalInfo": " \n\nLast updated: 10 February 2017 \n\nGoal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages \nTarget 3.4: By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through \nprevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being \nIndicator 3.4.2: Suicide mortality rate \n \nInstitutional information \n\n \nOrganization(s): \n \nWorld Health Organization (WHO) \n \nConcepts and definitions \n\n \nDefinition: \n \nThe Suicide mortality rate as defined as the number of suicide deaths in a year, divided by the population, \nand multiplied by 100 000. \n \nRationale: \n \nMental disorders occur in all regions and cultures of the world. The most prevalent of these disorders are \ndepression and anxiety, which are estimated to affect nearly 1 in 10 people. At its worst, depression can \nlead to suicide. In 2012, there were over 800,000 estimated suicide deaths worldwide. Suicide was the \nsecond leading cause of deaths among young adults aged 15\u201329 years, after road traffic injuries. \n \nComments and limitations: \n \nThe complete recording of suicide deaths in death-registration systems requires good linkages with \ncoronial and police systems, but can be seriously impeded by stigma, social and legal considerations, and \ndelays in determining cause of death. Less than one half of WHO Member States have well-functioning \ndeath-registration systems that record causes of death. \n \nMethodology \n\n \nComputation Method: \n \nSuicide mortality rate (per 100,000 population) = (Number of suicide deaths in a year x 100,000) / Mid-\nyear population for the same calendar year \n \nThe methods used for the analysis of causes of death depend on the type of data available from \ncountries: \n \n\n\f \n\nLast updated: 10 February 2017 \n\nFor countries with a high-quality vital registration system including information on cause of death, the \nvital registration that member states submit to the WHO Mortality Database were used, with \nadjustments where necessary, e.g. for under-reporting of deaths. \n \nFor countries without high-quality death registration data, cause of death estimates are calculated using \nother data, including household surveys with verbal autopsy, sample or sentinel registration systems, \nspecial studies and surveillance systems. In most cases, these data sources are combined in a modelling \nframework. \n \nDisaggregation: \n \nSex, age group \n \nTreatment of missing values: \n \n\n\u2022  At country level \n\n \nFor countries with high-quality cause-of-death statistics, interpolation/extrapolation was done for \nmissing country-years; for countries with only low-quality or no data on causes of death, modelling \nwas used. Complete methodology may be found here: \nWHO methods and data sources for global causes of death, 2000\u20132015 \n(http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/GlobalCOD_method_2000_2015.pdf ) \n \n \n\n\u2022  At regional and global levels \n\n \nNA \n \n\nRegional aggregates: \n \nCountry estimates of number of deaths by cause are summed to obtain regional and global aggregates. \n \nSources of discrepancies: \n \nIn countries with high quality vital registration systems, point estimates sometimes differ primarily for \ntwo reasons: 1) WHO redistributes deaths with ill-defined cause of death (i.e. injuries of unknown intent, \nICD codes Y10-Y34 and Y872) to suicide; and 2) WHO corrects for incomplete death registration. \n \nData Sources \n\n \nDescription: \n \nThe preferred data source is death registration systems with complete coverage and medical certification \nof cause of death, coded using the international classification of diseases (ICD). The ICD-10 codes for \nsuicide are: X60-X84, Y87.0. Other possible data sources include household surveys with verbal autopsy, \nsample or sentinel registration systems, special studies and surveillance systems. \n\n\f \n\nLast updated: 10 February 2017 \n\n \nCollection process: \n \nWHO conducts a formal country consultation process before releasing its cause-of-death estimates. \n \nData Availability \n\n \nDescription: \n \nAround 70 countries currently provide WHO with regular high-quality data on mortality by age, sex and \ncauses of death, and another 40 countries submit data of lower quality. However, comprehensive cause-\nof-death estimates are calculated by WHO systematically for all of its Member States (with a certain \npopulation threshold) every 3 years. \n \n \nCalendar \n\n \nData collection: \n \nWHO sends an e-mail two times per year requesting tabulated death registration data (including all \ncauses of death) from Member States. Countries submit annual cause-of-death statistics to WHO on an \nongoing basis. (From NA to NA) \n \nData release: \n \nEnd of 2016 \n \nData providers \n\n \nNational statistics offices and/or ministries of health. \n \nData compilers \n\n \nWHO \n \nReferences \n\n \nURL: \n \nhttp://www.who.int/gho/en/ \n \n\n\f \n\nLast updated: 10 February 2017 \n\nReferences: \n \nWHO indicator definition \n(http://apps.who.int/gho/indicatorregistry/App_Main/view_indicator.aspx?iid=4664) \n \nWHO methods and data sources for global causes of death, 2000\u20132015  \n(http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/GlobalCOD_method_2000_2015.pdf ) \n \nWorld Health Assembly Resolution WHA66.8 (2013): Comprehensive mental health action plan 2013\u2013\n2020, including Appendix 1: Indicators for Measuring Progress Towards Defined Targets of the \nComprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020 \n(http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA66/A66_R8-en.pdf?ua=1) \n \n \n \n\n\f",
    "dataPublishedBy": "United Nations Statistics Division",
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