Triple suicides higher than Albania's killings

Public opinion in our country has been taught to consider deaths in cases when people take each other's lives, but few thought the suicide rate was triple that of killing.

For 2016, INSTAT reports that the people killed by others totaled 85, while the people who had killed themselves in the same year were 235. Other countries in Europe when reporting crime statistics report both murder and suicide rates, but in Albania there is no such practice. The indicators were indirectly whitened when INSTAT reported the death causes in Albania the day before. The Interior Ministry reports only the killings that in 2016 were about 80, with less than INSTAT, but no source of data for suicide.

Until 2010 INSTAT published suicide statistics on the causes of deaths in the annual male publicization, but that stopped reporting until yesterday when INSTAT resumed publication. The World Health Organization confirmed that the number of suicides in Albania was 5.3 per 100,000 in 2015.

In Serbia, Romania and Bosnia this number is even higher because of the traumas that have left the wars since the 1990s in most of these countries, reports “Monitor”. According to the largest global health statistics portal, “Healthdata” in our country, the level of mortality from mental disorders and behavior in 2010 was 5.3 per 100,000 male and 2.3 per 100,000 female residents.

In both genders the death rate from these disorders increased gradually from 1990 to 2010, especially in males, according to data from the Institute of Public Health.