Percent potential reduction in overall intentional injury mortality per 100 000 population by cause*, excluding and including injuries of undetermined intent, and annual number of lives saved in the EU countries based on the average of the last three available years (circa 2000)
| Country | Mortality rate by cause | Without injuries of undetermined intent | With injuries of undetermined intent | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suicide | Homicide | IUI | Deaths/year | Average yearly age adjusted MR | Lowest total rate | Deaths/year | Average yearly age adjusted MR | Lowest total rate | |||
| Potential reduction (%)† | Lives saved | Potential reduction (%)† | Lives saved | ||||||||
| *Deaths due legal intervention or war operations are excluded. | |||||||||||
| †Bold numbers indicate a statistically significant difference between the average yearly age adjusted MR of the respective country and the average yearly age adjusted MR of Greece. | |||||||||||
| Rankings are by average yearly age adjusted MR without injuries of undetermined intent. | |||||||||||
| EU, European Union; IUI, injury of undetermined intent; MR, mortality rate. | |||||||||||
| Greece | 3.1 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 489 | 4.1 | 0.0 | 0 | 489 | 4.1 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Italy | 6.0 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 4703 | 7.0 | 41.0 | 1928 | 5569 | 8.1 | 49.1 | 2737 |
| UK | 6.6 | 0.9 | 3.4 | 4551 | 7.4 | 44.7 | 2033 | 6620 | 10.8 | 62.0 | 4105 |
| Spain | 7.0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 3660 | 7.9 | 47.8 | 1751 | 3774 | 8.1 | 49.4 | 1865 |
| Portugal | 7.0 | 1.3 | 7.5 | 970 | 8.2 | 50.0 | 485 | 1852 | 15.8 | 73.9 | 1369 |
| Netherlands | 9.0 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 1701 | 10.1 | 59.3 | 1009 | 1762 | 10.5 | 60.7 | 1070 |
| Germany | 11.8 | 0.8 | 2.4 | 11763 | 12.5 | 67.1 | 7897 | 14209 | 14.9 | 72.4 | 10286 |
| Ireland | 12.1 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 497 | 13.0 | 68.4 | 340 | 554 | 14.6 | 71.7 | 397 |
| Sweden | 12.2 | 1.1 | 3.3 | 1278 | 13.2 | 68.9 | 880 | 1581 | 16.5 | 75.0 | 1186 |
| Denmark | 12.9 | 1.1 | 3.6 | 810 | 14.0 | 70.6 | 572 | 1010 | 17.6 | 76.6 | 773 |
| Slovakia | 13.0 | 2.2 | 3.6 | 826 | 15.2 | 72.9 | 602 | 1020 | 18.8 | 78.1 | 797 |
| Czech Republic | 14.3 | 1.3 | 3.0 | 1743 | 15.7 | 73.7 | 1285 | 2073 | 18.7 | 77.9 | 1615 |
| Poland | 14.9 | 1.8 | 6.0 | 6588 | 16.7 | 75.3 | 4964 | 8958 | 22.7 | 81.9 | 7335 |
| France | 16.5 | 0.8 | 2.3 | 11003 | 17.2 | 76.1 | 8373 | 12476 | 19.6 | 79.0 | 9851 |
| Austria | 17.0 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1617 | 17.9 | 76.9 | 1244 | 1689 | 18.7 | 78.0 | 1317 |
| Belgium | 19.2 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 2287 | 21.0 | 80.3 | 1838 | 2526 | 23.2 | 82.2 | 2078 |
| Finland | 21.2 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 1297 | 23.9 | 82.7 | 1073 | 1400 | 25.7 | 84.0 | 1175 |
| Slovenia | 26.1 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 592 | 27.1 | 84.8 | 502 | 683 | 31.1 | 86.8 | 593 |
| Hungary | 27.0 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 3279 | 29.4 | 86.0 | 2820 | 3441 | 30.8 | 86.6 | 2982 |
| Estonia | 26.8 | 13.0 | 7.4 | 569 | 39.8 | 89.6 | 510 | 678 | 47.2 | 91.3 | 619 |
| Latvia | 28.9 | 11.9 | 9.9 | 1000 | 40.7 | 89.9 | 899 | 1239 | 50.6 | 91.9 | 1138 |
| Lithuania | 44.9 | 9.1 | 9.0 | 1892 | 54.0 | 92.4 | 1747 | 2205 | 63.0 | 93.5 | 2061 |
| EU | 11.6 | 1.2 | 2.5 | 63113 | 12.9 | 68.0 | 42923 | 75807 | 15.4 | 73.3 | 55555 |