Context and inspiration This dataset was necessary for me to write my [Suicide in the Twenty-First Century][1] piece. Looking at the data, you can observe long-time trends and differences between countries, as well as within countries across a few demographic groups - in both cases you will see that these differences may be very large. Content Basic aggregate numbers covering 1979-2016, by country, year, age groups and sex. There is only one file, with only a few columns. I made this file using the [WHO Mortality Database online tool][2]. Acknowledgements and license I prepared and uploaded the data file without WHO's knowledge, let alone approval or endorsement. Yet, the data itself belongs to WHO, so please see the [WHO copyrights, permission and licensing][3] pages if you want to use it. Photo by [Daniela Rocha][4] on Unsplash. [1]: https://www.kaggle.com/szamil/suicide-in-the-twenty-first-century/ [2]: http://apps.who.int/healthinfo/statistics/mortality/whodpms/ [3]: http://www.who.int/about/copyright/en/ [4]: https://unsplash.com/@danirocha16