The numbers nobody talks about
Official figures for men who died by suicide in Ireland, every year since 1990. Pick a year — or tap a bar below.
302
men lost to suicide
76%
of all suicides were men
12.2
per 100,000 men
That's roughly 5.8 men every week in 2021. (97 women also died by suicide that year.)
Men, year by year
19902021
11,482 men since 1990. Every one of them was someone's son, brother, father or mate.
Source: Central Statistics Office (CSO), table VSD31 "Suicides by Sex and Year". 2021 is the latest year published.
These are deaths registered at the time. Many suicides go through the coroner and get registered late, so the true numbers — especially recent years — are likely higher.