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Every version of this site, what came with it, and which countries arrived. A version is a state of the data you can cite, not a release of software.

1.1World Suicide Prevention Day

Anchored 2026-09-11

  • India arrives, from the National Crime Records Bureau's police count at ages 0–17, 2020–2024 — the first police series on this site.
  • Kenya arrives at ages 0–14, from the two years of community death registration that can be read.
  • The Philippines reaches 2024, four years past the WHO submission, drawn as two runs because no year is covered by both sources.
  • Canada goes back to 1974 at ages 15–19, half of it recovered from rates Statistics Canada published to fifteen significant figures and never published counts for.
  • Nine European series extended from Eurostat, Norway by eight years and Germany by three, each tested against the years both sources cover. France failed that test and was not extended.
  • Forty-four years of phantom zeros removed across six countries, where the WHO file records a year a country never sent as a row of zeros.
  • An age range on every page: twelve ranges from 0–14 to 20–24, wherever a country's own file supports them, assembled from published bands and never interpolated.
  • A cookieless page counter that records no address, no user agent and no cookie, and honours Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track in the browser.
  • A review reads a page's own age range and the words around it, not every variant of the sentence under the chart, which the engine recomputes for each range, sex and window.

1.0Launched

Anchored 2026-09-09

  • 113 countries and territories published, from 78 with a rate at ages 0-19 to 115 with a page of their own.
  • 405,756 suicides over 20.91 billion person-years of observation at ages 0-19.
  • Twelve age ranges, from 0-14 to 20-24, each assembled from published bands and never interpolated.
  • A world map with quartile bins, a tile grid of the same data, and a page for every jurisdiction.
  • 43 pages for countries whose published figures are not usable, each saying which of the two reasons applies and showing what was published.
  • Guernsey and Alderney as prose, because six to nine deaths in twenty years is a paragraph and not a rate.
  • China from urban and rural surveillance points, weighted by the 2020 census split, with the two lines shown so the weighting can be judged.
  • School days and youth suicide: US ages 5-17 by weekday, month and school term.
  • bands.csv and world.json: every jurisdiction at every range it can be read at, as one table.
Struggling with suicide?

In the US and Canada, call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. The Trevor Project supports LGBTQ+ young people at 1-866-488-7386, or text START to 678-678.

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