![]() ![]() ![]() If there is a lower ratio of unexpected deaths to suicides, this implies that a higher proportion of unexpected deaths were classified as suicides, which is an indicator of better data quality. It’s possible to get an indicator of data quality on suicides by looking at the ratio of unexpected deaths to suicides.2 This can also be why some countries appear to have rising suicide rates, if the rates of misclassification decline. Suicides may still be underestimated after this adjustment, especially if they are misclassified as other types of deaths. ![]() As a result, data on suicide rates represent a better estimate of how many people die from suicide. To account for this, the WHO’s Global Health Observatory reclassifies a proportion of deaths reported with those causes as suicides, according to the fraction that are estimated to be deaths by suicide. Instead, these deaths are often misclassified in reported data, especially as deaths due to “events of undetermined intent”, accidents, homicides, or unknown causes. ![]() In many countries, deaths due to self-harm are highly underreported due to social stigma, cultural and legal concerns.This includes people who had self-harmed but had not intended to die, and they may not be considered suicides by the country’s particular legal definition. Suicide estimates come from death certificate data, using deaths that were classified under death codes for ‘intentional self-harm’ in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). ![]()
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