Authors and publication years	Year of data collection	Settings	Place of the study	Age and sex	N sample size	Outcome measures instruments	Prevalence

Ellsberg et al. 2008	2000-2003	Urban or/and Rural	Bangladesh, Brazil, Peru, Thailand, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Japan, Namibia, and Serbia and Montenegro, Samoa	15 - 49 years ever-married women	24,097	A standardized questionnaire was developed, and translated into 14 languages	Average prevalence of suicidal ideation for all countries was 2.9 (2.7 - 3.2). In Bangladesh suicidal ideation was 7% and 21% for ever-married women who are without and with experience of physical and sexual violence respectively.

Gausia et al. 2009	July-December 2005	Rural	Matlab sub-district in Chandpur, a rural area of eastern Bangladesh.	17 - 41 years pregnant women	361 pregnant women	EPDS-B (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale)	The prevalence of depression at 34 - 35 weeks pregnancy was 33% and the prevalence of suicidal ideation was 14%.
Feroz et al. 2012	from 15/12/2009 to 15/03/2010	Rural	Mominpur union under Sadar Upazilla of district, Chuadanga	12 - 70 years male and female	A total of 3551 households were surveyed covering 12,422 individuals.	Door-to-door survey, face to face interview and recording of all findings.	Prevalence of suicidal attempt was 281.8 per 100,000 per year

Naved and Akhtar 2008	June 25 -November 25, 2001	Rural	National representative	Women 15 - 49	2,702	Structured questionnaire	Prevalence of suicidal ideation was 11% - 14%. About 5% - 6% of the ever-married women reported having suicidal ideation during the last 4 weeks.
Wahlin et al. 2015	August 2003-January 2004	Rural	Matlab sub-district in Chandpur	60 - 95 years man and woman	625	SRQ20 (self reporting questionnaire 20)	The prevalence of depression was 45%, and most pronounced among the oldest women (70%). The prevalence of suicidal ideation was 23% (men 17% and women 28%)