This report was prepared for the Council of Ministers by Senior Researcher and Head of Program Annette Erlangsen, PhD from the Danish Research Institute for Suicide Prevention (DRISP) in collaboration with Trine Madsen PhD, Britt Morthorst Reuter PhD, Nikolaj Kjær Høier, Prof. Merete Nordentoft, DRISP; Prof. August G Wang from University of Faroe Islands, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands; Prof. Erkki Isometsä from Department of Psychiatry, University of Helsinki, Finland; Prof. Timo Partonen, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland; Pia Solin, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland; Prof Christina Viskum Lytken Larsen, Ivalu Katajavaara Seidler, and Arnarak Patricia Bloch from Centre for Public Health in Greenland, National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark; Gudrun Jona Gudlaugsdottir MS and Hogni Oskarsson MD from Center of Suicide Prevention, Lifsbru, Directorate of Health, Iceland; Prof. Ping Qin PhD and Prof. Lars Mehlum MD PhD from National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway; Prof. Dr Murad M Khan from Department of Psychiatry, Aga Khan University, Pakistan; Prof. Danuta Wasserman MD PhD, Vladimir Carli MD, and Gergö Hadlaczky from National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden