(ANSA) - Rome, January 4 - Suicides in Italy fell in the last year reported, 2015, ISTAT said in its 2018 annual report Friday.

Suicides fell from 4,147 in 2017 (6.8 per 1,000 inhabitants) to 3,989 in 2015 (6.6), said Rome university psychiatrist Massimo Cozza.

He said this was part of a global trend.

