The Ministry of Health has now released provisional annual suicide figures for 2016. Their information shows there were 553 confirmed suicides. This included 135 Māori suicides, of which two-thirds were Māori males. The Māori suicide rate was then, in 2016, 20.3 per 100,000 tangata. This is much higher than other
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