Data show though the suicide death rate in Taiwan has generally decreased since 2007, it has slightly risen in the past three years, especially among young people.  

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/09/03
By: Teng Pei-ju, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The latest survey shows that in Taiwan, there are about 1.53

million people suffering from emotional problems and among them, more than 40 percent have had a suicidal idea, said Lee Ming-been (李明濱), chief leader at Taiwan Suicide Prevention Center (TSPC), Sunday.

The TSPC conducted a telephone survey this year with 2,098 people aged over 15 in the country and discovered that 6.7 percent of people had had a suicidal idea in the past year, which is the lowest figure over the last few years.

However, Lee said that through the 5-item Brief Symptom Rating Scale (BSRS-5), a list of questions commonly used in Taiwan for examining individual’s mental health, they estimated that roughly 1.53 million people are having emotional problems, and among them, more than 40 percent “have seriously thought about committing suicide.”
Lee said in a speech that though the suicide death rate in Taiwan had generally decreased since 2007, it had slightly risen in the past three years.
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