Trends in suicide by hanging, strangulation, and suffocation in Serbia, 1991-2020: A joinpoint regression and age-period-cohort analysis

Table 1 Suicide mortality by hanging/strangulation/suffocation in Serbia, 1991-2020; number of cases and age standardized rate per 100000 (using World standard population)

Year	All		Males		Females
	Number	ASR	Number	ASR	Number	ASR
1991	978	9.1	690	14.1	288	4.7
1992	1010	9.1	697	13.7	313	5.0
1993	1033	9.2	690	13.6	343	5.4
1994	948	8.5	679	13.3	269	4.3
1995	830	7.4	588	11.4	242	4.0
1996	909	8.3	638	12.6	271	4.5
1997	907	8.1	649	12.6	258	4.0
1998	857	7.6	594	11.6	263	4.2
1999	947	8.2	661	12.7	286	4.3
2000	919	7.7	646	12.1	273	3.9
2001	860	7.4	605	11.4	255	3.9
2002	876	7.4	644	12.0	232	3.3
2003	807	6.9	600	11.5	207	2.9
2004	836	7.1	623	11.6	213	3.2
2005	856	6.9	609	11.0	247	3.2
2006	881	7.3	640	11.7	241	3.3
2007	841	7.0	609	11.1	232	3.3
2008	804	6.9	572	10.6	232	3.4
2009	836	7.1	630	11.6	206	3.1
2010	745	5.9	562	9.7	183	2.4
2011	818	6.8	603	10.9	215	3.1
2012	807	6.7	616	11.1	191	2.7
2013	734	6.1	562	10.1	172	2.5
2014	720	5.9	558	9.9	162	2.2
2015	646	5.4	501	9.0	145	2.1
2016	603	5.2	451	8.4	152	2.2
2017	614	5.1	481	8.7	133	1.9
2018	586	4.8	466	8.2	120	1.7
2019	586	5.1	453	8.5	133	1.9
2020	546	4.5	433	7.6	113	1.7
Overall	24340	7.0	17750	11.1	6590	3.3

ASR: Age-standardized rate.