Of the economies in the World Bank's latest release, Lesotho has the highest suicide mortality rate (per 100,000 population) (28.66 in 2021) and St. Vincent and the Grenadines the lowest (0.41 in 2021). The world figure is 9.13 (2021).
What this measures
Suicide mortality rate is the number of suicide deaths in a year per 100,000 population. Crude suicide rate (not age-adjusted).
Limitations: Due to changes in input data and methods, the revisions of the data are not comparable to previously published estimates.
Each country's latest available year is shown; countries report on different schedules, so compare years before comparing values.
Ranking
| # | Economy | Latest value | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lesotho | 28.66 | 2021 |
| 2 | Korea, Rep. | 27.53 | 2021 |
| 3 | Eswatini | 27.23 | 2021 |
| 4 | Guyana | 24.78 | 2021 |
| 5 | Uruguay | 24.75 | 2021 |
| 6 | South Africa | 22.3 | 2021 |
| 7 | Suriname | 22.26 | 2021 |
| 8 | Lithuania | 22.12 | 2021 |
| 9 | Russian Federation | 21.37 | 2021 |
| 10 | Ukraine | 21.21 | 2021 |
| 11 | Micronesia, Fed. Sts. | 19.76 | 2021 |
| 12 | Solomon Islands | 19.6 | 2021 |
| 13 | Slovenia | 18.85 | 2021 |
| 14 | Mongolia | 18.5 | 2021 |
| 15 | Belgium | 18.36 | 2021 |
| 16 | Kiribati | 17.47 | 2021 |
| 17 | Japan | 17.43 | 2021 |
| 18 | Zimbabwe | 17.34 | 2021 |
| 19 | Thailand | 16.59 | 2021 |
| 20 | France | 16.58 | 2021 |
| 21 | Hungary | 16.45 | 2021 |
| 22 | Vanuatu | 15.73 | 2021 |
| 23 | Croatia | 15.68 | 2021 |
| 24 | United States | 15.63 | 2021 |
| 25 | Belarus | 15.61 | 2021 |
| 26 | Latvia | 15.21 | 2021 |
| 27 | Serbia | 15.14 | 2021 |
| 28 | Estonia | 14.94 | 2021 |
| 29 | Cabo Verde | 14.9 | 2021 |
| 30 | Sri Lanka | 14.74 | 2021 |
| 31 | Kazakhstan | 14.6 | 2021 |
| 32 | Finland | 14.57 | 2021 |
| 33 | Austria | 14.51 | 2021 |
| 34 | Moldova | 14.14 | 2021 |
| 35 | Switzerland | 14.02 | 2021 |
| 36 | Sweden | 13.84 | 2021 |
| 37 | Cuba | 13.79 | 2021 |
| 38 | Poland | 13.67 | 2021 |
| 39 | Trinidad and Tobago | 13.34 | 2021 |
| 40 | Czechia | 13.33 | 2021 |
| 41 | Eritrea | 13.23 | 2021 |
| 42 | Norway | 13.19 | 2021 |
| 43 | Australia | 13.08 | 2021 |
| 44 | Germany | 12.9 | 2021 |
| 45 | India | 12.56 | 2021 |
| 46 | Samoa | 12 | 2021 |
| 47 | New Zealand | 11.92 | 2021 |
| 48 | Iceland | 11.91 | 2021 |
| 49 | Portugal | 11.52 | 2021 |
| 50 | Netherlands | 11.5 | 2021 |
| 51 | Montenegro | 11.31 | 2021 |
| 52 | Mozambique | 10.61 | 2021 |
| 53 | Mauritius | 10.52 | 2021 |
| 54 | Denmark | 10.46 | 2021 |
| 55 | Nepal | 10.14 | 2021 |
| 56 | Slovak Republic | 9.91 | 2021 |
| 57 | Romania | 9.62 | 2021 |
| 58 | United Kingdom | 9.55 | 2021 |
| 59 | Bulgaria | 9.51 | 2021 |
| 60 | Canada | 9.44 | 2021 |
| 61 | Togo | 9.34 | 2021 |
| 62 | Korea, Dem. People's Rep. | 9.31 | 2021 |
| 63 | Central African Republic | 9.19 | 2021 |
| 64 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 8.97 | 2021 |
| 65 | China | 8.95 | 2021 |
| 66 | Congo, Dem. Rep. | 8.77 | 2021 |
| 67 | Spain | 8.72 | 2021 |
| 68 | Rwanda | 8.68 | 2021 |
| 69 | Venezuela, RB | 8.63 | 2021 |
| 70 | Namibia | 8.59 | 2021 |
| 71 | Ireland | 8.55 | 2021 |
| 72 | Burkina Faso | 8.5 | 2021 |
| 73 | Cameroon | 8.5 | 2021 |
| 74 | Botswana | 8.35 | 2021 |
| 75 | Uzbekistan | 8.34 | 2021 |
| 76 | Fiji | 8.27 | 2021 |
| 77 | Luxembourg | 8.22 | 2021 |
| 78 | Angola | 8.11 | 2021 |
| 79 | Singapore | 8.1 | 2021 |
| 80 | Costa Rica | 8.06 | 2021 |
| 81 | Djibouti | 7.96 | 2021 |
| 82 | Somalia, Fed. Rep. | 7.96 | 2021 |
| 83 | Argentina | 7.94 | 2021 |
| 84 | South Sudan | 7.89 | 2021 |
| 85 | Haiti | 7.81 | 2021 |
| 86 | Chile | 7.69 | 2021 |
| 87 | Guinea-Bissau | 7.67 | 2021 |
| 88 | Burundi | 7.65 | 2021 |
| 89 | El Salvador | 7.63 | 2021 |
| 90 | Brazil | 7.59 | 2021 |
| 91 | Malawi | 7.57 | 2021 |
| 92 | Ecuador | 7.56 | 2021 |
| 93 | Côte d'Ivoire | 7.39 | 2021 |
| 94 | Gabon | 7.3 | 2021 |
| 95 | Viet Nam | 7.3 | 2021 |
| 96 | Zambia | 7.13 | 2021 |
| 97 | Benin | 7.12 | 2021 |
| 98 | Equatorial Guinea | 7.03 | 2021 |
| 99 | Italy | 6.99 | 2021 |
| 100 | Mexico | 6.95 | 2021 |
| 101 | Turkmenistan | 6.83 | 2021 |
| 102 | Kyrgyz Republic | 6.8 | 2021 |
| 103 | Senegal | 6.76 | 2021 |
| 104 | Congo, Rep. | 6.71 | 2021 |
| 105 | Malta | 6.47 | 2021 |
| 106 | Paraguay | 6.36 | 2021 |
| 107 | Sierra Leone | 6.14 | 2021 |
| 108 | Madagascar | 6.09 | 2021 |
| 109 | Ethiopia | 6.07 | 2021 |
| 110 | Comoros | 6 | 2021 |
| 111 | Liberia | 5.97 | 2021 |
| 112 | North Macedonia | 5.78 | 2021 |
| 113 | Malaysia | 5.65 | 2021 |
| 114 | Pakistan | 5.64 | 2021 |
| 115 | Uganda | 5.5 | 2021 |
| 116 | Puerto Rico (US) | 5.42 | 2021 |
| 117 | Ghana | 5.32 | 2021 |
| 118 | St. Lucia | 5.27 | 2021 |
| 119 | Chad | 5.21 | 2021 |
| 120 | Georgia | 5.1 | 2021 |
| 121 | Tanzania | 5.1 | 2021 |
| 122 | Libya | 5 | 2021 |
| 123 | Nigeria | 4.99 | 2021 |
| 124 | Colombia | 4.96 | 2021 |
| 125 | Guatemala | 4.94 | 2021 |
| 126 | Bhutan | 4.9 | 2021 |
| 127 | Guinea | 4.82 | 2021 |
| 128 | Gambia, The | 4.81 | 2021 |
| 129 | Tonga | 4.73 | 2021 |
| 130 | Qatar | 4.7 | 2021 |
| 131 | Greece | 4.68 | 2021 |
| 132 | Bahrain | 4.66 | 2021 |
| 133 | Kenya | 4.58 | 2021 |
| 134 | Lao PDR | 4.58 | 2021 |
| 135 | Cambodia | 4.5 | 2021 |
| 136 | Niger | 4.48 | 2021 |
| 137 | Israel | 4.37 | 2021 |
| 138 | Seychelles | 4.27 | 2021 |
| 139 | Nicaragua | 4.24 | 2021 |
| 140 | Yemen, Rep. | 4.21 | 2021 |
| 141 | Bolivia | 4.2 | 2021 |
| 142 | Dominican Republic | 4.2 | 2021 |
| 143 | Belize | 4.18 | 2021 |
| 144 | Mali | 4.16 | 2021 |
| 145 | Iran, Islamic Rep. | 4.07 | 2021 |
| 146 | Afghanistan | 3.6 | 2021 |
| 147 | Timor-Leste | 3.56 | 2021 |
| 148 | Barbados | 3.5 | 2021 |
| 149 | Philippines | 3.49 | 2021 |
| 150 | Panama | 3.29 | 2021 |
| 151 | Bahamas, The | 3.25 | 2021 |
| 152 | Sudan | 3.16 | 2021 |
| 153 | Brunei Darussalam | 3.05 | 2021 |
| 154 | Cyprus | 3.02 | 2021 |
| 155 | Honduras | 2.97 | 2021 |
| 156 | Iraq | 2.97 | 2021 |
| 157 | Morocco | 2.91 | 2021 |
| 158 | Myanmar | 2.89 | 2021 |
| 159 | Bangladesh | 2.81 | 2021 |
| 160 | Albania | 2.75 | 2021 |
| 161 | Mauritania | 2.71 | 2021 |
| 162 | Türkiye | 2.69 | 2021 |
| 163 | Armenia | 2.46 | 2021 |
| 164 | Tajikistan | 2.43 | 2021 |
| 165 | Kuwait | 2.31 | 2021 |
| 166 | Algeria | 2.18 | 2021 |
| 167 | Tunisia | 1.84 | 2021 |
| 168 | Papua New Guinea | 1.82 | 2021 |
| 169 | United Arab Emirates | 1.71 | 2021 |
| 170 | Jamaica | 1.69 | 2021 |
| 171 | Azerbaijan | 1.56 | 2021 |
| 172 | Peru | 1.54 | 2021 |
| 173 | Maldives | 1.47 | 2021 |
| 174 | Antigua and Barbuda | 1.46 | 2021 |
| 175 | Grenada | 1.3 | 2021 |
| 176 | Indonesia | 1.2 | 2021 |
| 177 | Saudi Arabia | 0.95 | 2021 |
| 178 | Oman | 0.91 | 2021 |
| 179 | São Tomé and Principe | 0.86 | 2021 |
| 180 | Lebanon | 0.7 | 2021 |
| 181 | West Bank and Gaza | 0.65 | 2021 |
| 182 | Egypt, Arab Rep. | 0.63 | 2021 |
| 183 | Jordan | 0.6 | 2021 |
| 184 | Syrian Arab Republic | 0.59 | 2021 |
| 185 | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 0.41 | 2021 |
Regions and income groups
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- Prevalence of anemia among women of reproductive age (% of women ages 15-49)
- Prevalence of anemia among children (% of children ages 6-59 months)
- Prevalence of anemia among non-pregnant women (% of women ages 15-49)
- Number of deaths ages 5-9 years
- Number of deaths ages 10-14 years
- Number of deaths ages 15-19 years
- Number of deaths ages 20-24 years
- Number of infant deaths
- Number of under-five deaths
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Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, SH.STA.SUIC.P5, CC BY 4.0. Original source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/)., World Health Organization (WHO), uri: https://www.who.int/data/gho View on data.worldbank.org; the full definition is in the World Bank's metadata glossary.
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