Gestor bibliográfico Crisis y Salud

We would like to contribute to the lively debate on the supposed association between the current economic crisis and national suicide rates.1 Here we supply Hungarian data. Hungarian annual suicide rates were tremendously high in the previous century and characterised by long-lasting and monotonic trends. Accordingly, there was a zenith during the Great Depression (1929-33), with values above 30 per 100?000 per year. Afterwards, annual rates decreased until 1955 (below 20 per 100?000 per year) then increased until the mid-1980s (about 45 per 100?000 per year). From 1987, the rate showed a marked decline and reached the value 24·4 per 100?000 per year in 2006, when the strong declining trend of the previous 20 years stopped. Since then-until 2011-the annual suicide rates remained steady