People with suicidal thoughts have been given more places to seek help. This contributes to a record low number of suicides in Denmark.
Fewer Danes graduate their lives with a suicide, shows a calculation from the Center for Suicide Research.
In 2025, 502 suicides were registered in Denmark, distributed among 370 men and 132 women over the age of 15.
This is 91 fewer than the year before and the lowest number in the years from 2015 to 2025.
An action plan from 2024 to prevent suicide and suicide attempts is one of the reasons for the positive development, says Erik Christiansen, head of research at the centre.
Another is that suicide is no longer surrounded by the same taboo.
– Once it was thought that it was dangerous to talk about suicide, because it could inspire to do it. Today we know that that assumption is wrong, and more people are aware of it.
– For example, general practitioners. When they ask directly, help can be deployed earlier, says Erik Christiansen.
Chief physician and professor Merete Nordentoft also points to the sum of efforts.
She is a member of the Council for Suicide Prevention, which must monitor the introduction of the eight initiatives in the action plan.
– It is going in the right direction, and this is due, among other things, to the fact that help for suicidal people has become more accessible, says Merete Nordentoft.
For example, the suicide prevention clinics in the five regions have received extra funding so that they can offer more people with suicidal thoughts or a suicide attempt an interview process.
