21 suicides in Malta last year

21 people committed suicide in Malta last year, the vast majority of whom were male.

Data tabled in Parliament by home affairs minister Carmelo Abela in response to a parliamentary question by Opposition MP Claudio Grech show that 18 of the victims were male and three were female. It also shows that 17 of them were Maltese, while four were foreign.

The youngest victims were a 25-year-old Maltese man and a 26-year-old foreign man, while the eldest were two 83-year-old Maltese men.