In recent years, however, the decline has slowed. The suicide rate in Sweden was at its highest in the 1970s and has since decreased. Suicide rates are also higher in rural areas compared to urban areas. Suicide rates are higher among those with only pre-secondary education for example. The suicide rate in Sweden also varies significantly in relation to educational status and geographic factors. For people over the age of 65, suicide was less than one percent of all deaths. Among young people (aged 15–29), who have a lower risk than older people of dying as a result of illness, suicide accounted for one third of all deaths. Looking at suicide in relation to the total number of deaths in each age group, presents yet another picture. For men, the number of suicides is lowest in the oldest age group (43 deaths) and highest in the 45–64 age group (281 deaths). Since the suicide rate is calculated in relation to the size of the age groups in the population, the rate differs from the actual number of suicides. On the other hand, among children and young people (under the age of 18), there are approximately as many girls as boys who die by suicide. The lowest suicide rate in 2021 was among women aged 15–29 (7 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants). In this group, the suicide rate was 45, which is twice as high as among men in the younger age groups. The highest suicide rate was among men who were 85 years or older. The difference in suicide rates between women and men increases with increasing age. The suicide rate for men and women combined was 14. In the population aged 15 and over, the suicide rate (number of suicides per 100,000 inhabitants) was 20 for men and 8 for women.
Two thirds of those who died by suicide in 2021 were men. A further 279 cases were registered as deaths of undetermined intent, of which many could have been suicide. Eleven were children under the age of 15. In 2021, 1,226 people died by suicide in Sweden.
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