Worldwide, Eastern Europe, the Soviet Republic and China have rates that exceed those of the U.S. Canada and Australia and portions of western Europe are roughly equivalent to the US
However, if we examine attempts separately from deaths, we see that the proportion of attempts, shown in light yellow compared with suicide deaths is large, especially in the younger years. However the proportion of deaths to attempts increases significantly with age. We can see that although the rates per 100,000 of suicide deaths is high, the number of attempts is staggering. There are over 23,000 male deaths per year
Switching to females, we can see that females have a much lower death rate than do males, but it important to remember that there are 5,800 deaths per year