The following are lists of countries by estimated suicide rates as published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other sources.[note 1]
In many countries, suicide rates are underreported due to social stigma, cultural or legal concerns.[3] Thus, these figures may not reflect actual suicide rates, which are unknown in many countries.
The global total of suicide deaths decreased from an estimated 762,000 in 2000 to 717,000 in 2021, which is 9.1 deaths per 100,000 population.[4] In high-income countries, male and female rates of suicidal behaviors differ compared to the rest of the world: while women are reportedly more prone to suicidal thoughts, rates of suicide are higher among men, which has been described as a "silent epidemic".[5][6][7][8][9]
In 2021, the global rate of suicide deaths for men was 12.3 per 100,000, more than double the rate for women, which stood at 5.9 per 100,000 population. However, the sex disparity was uneven across regions, with a male-to-female ratio ranging from as low as 1.4 in the Southeast Asia Region to nearly 4.0 in the Region of the Americas.[10]
Template:BlockquoteAs such, suicide rates may be higher than measured, with men more at risk of dying by suicide than women across nearly all cultures and backgrounds.[11] Suicide prevention and intervention is an important topic for all peoples, according to the WHO.[12]
Countries and territories by suicide rate
Background Template:Further information Suicide rates vary by country but occurs in all regions of the world. In a 2024 WHO report, 73% of reported suicides were in low and middle-income countries. Mental illness and suicide are linked, though many suicides are impulsive and occur due to crisis. Groups subject to discrimination, including refugees, indigenous populations, and LGBTQ people, experience high suicide rates. Societal and cultural taboos around the discussion of topics of suicide and lack of quality suicide data are impeding factors in suicide prevention. Suicide prevention includes such measures as restricting access to methods, responsible media reporting, and treatment and assessment of suicidal people.[13]
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Analysis
| Income group (% of global pop) | Suicides, 2012 (in thousands) |
Global % | Rate (2012) |
Male:Female (2012) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High-income countries (18.3%) | 197 | 24.5% | 12.7 | 3.5 : 1 |
| Upper-middle-income countries (34.3%) | 192 | 23.8% | 7.5 | 1.3 : 1 |
| Lower-middle-income countries (35.4%) | 333 | 41.4% | 14.1 | 1.7 : 1 |
| Low-income countries (12.0%) | 82 | 10.2% | 13.4 | 1.7 : 1 |
| Global (100.0%) | 804 | 100.0% | 11.4 | 1.9 : 1 |
Male and female suicide rates are out of the total male population and total female population, respectively, i.e. total number of male suicides divided by the total male population. Age-standardized rates account for the influence that different population age distributions might have on the analysis of crude death rates, statistically addressing the prevailing trends by age-groups and populations' structures, to enhance long term cross-national comparability.
Based on age-groups' deviation from standardized population structures, rates are rounded up or down (age-adjustment). Basically, the presence of younger individuals in any given age structure carries more weight. If the rate is rounded up, that means the median age is lower than average for that region or country, and vice versa when rounded down.
Most countries listed above report a higher male suicide rate. Worldwide, there are about 3 male suicides out of 4, or a factor of 3:1. For example, the ratio in the United States was 3.36 in 2015, and 3.53 in 2016.[16]Template:Efn
Though age-standardization is common statistical process to categorize mortality data for comparing purposes, this approach by WHO is based on estimates which take into account issues such as under-reporting, resulting in rates differing from the official national statistics prepared and endorsed by individual countries. Revisions are also performed periodically. Age-adjusted rates are mortality rates that would have existed if all populations under study had the same age distribution as a "standard" population. Plain, crude estimated rates are available at here and here. Countries with a population less than 100 000 are excluded.
Countries with large internal discrepancies are complicated to assess. Canada, a country with a comparatively low suicide rate overall at 10.3 incidents per 100,000 people in 2016, exhibits one such discrepancy. When comparing the suicide rate of Indigenous peoples in Canada, the rate of suicide increases to 24.3 incidents per 100,000 people in 2016,[17] a rate among the ten highest in the world. There are numerous differences in living standards and income that contribute to this phenomenon, classed as an epidemic in Canada.[18]
List by other sources and years (1985–2023)
In the list below various sources from various years are included, mixing plain crude rates with age-adjusted rates and estimated rates, so cross-national comparability is somewhat skewed.
* indicates "Suicide in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" or "Mental Health in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links. Template:Static row numbersTemplate:Sticky header
| Country | Male | Female | Overall | Sources and year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template:Flagg (Danish Realm) | 75.08 | 25.18 | 53.34 | 2019[21] |
| Template:Flagg | 32.2 | 6.7 | 18.6 | 2022[22][23][24] |
| Template:Flagg | 35.9 | 16.2 | 26.0 | 2021[25] |
| Template:Flagg | 41.25 | 10.20 | 25.52 | 2017[26][27] |
| Template:Flagg | 40.68 | 8.01 | 23.81 | 2017[27] |
| Template:Flagg | 18.09 | 2016[22] | ||
| Template:Flagg | [28] | 14.6 | 2018 | |
| Template:Flagg | [22] | 17.98 | 2016 | |
| Template:Flagg | 20.5 | 2017[29] | ||
| Template:Flagg (estimate)Template:Efn | 20.1 | 2018[30] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 22.4 | 2016[31] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 37.2 | 9.9 | 23.3 | 2022[32][33] |
| Template:Flagg | 18.56 | 2016[22] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 15.9 | 2016[34] | ||
| Template:Flagg | [22] | 13.52 | 2016 | |
| Template:Flagg | 17.0 | 2016[35][note 2][36][note 3] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 23.1 | 10.1 | 16.5 | 2018[37][38] |
| Template:Flagg (government data)Template:Efn | 21.0 | 11.6 | 16.2 | 2022[30] |
| Template:Flagg | 16 | 2016[22][39] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 12.16 | 2017[40] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 23.8 | 7.1 | 13.69 | 2016[22] |
| Template:Flagg | 15.4 | 2005[41] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 14.31 | 2016[22][42] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 13.72 | 2023[43] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 23.9 | 4.8 | 14.4 | 2005 |
| Template:Flagg | 22.3 | 6.9 | 14.26 | 2016[22][44] |
| Template:Flagg | 10.33 | 2016[22][45] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 21.8 | 6.0 | 14.5 | 2017[46][47][48] |
| Template:Flagg | 12.28 | 2016[22][49] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 13.7 | 2017[50] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 13.6 | 2012[51] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 11.4 | 2020[52] | ||
| Template:Flagg | [22][53] | 11.29 | 2016 | |
| Template:Flagg | 19.0 | 5.5 | 12.3 | 2008 |
| Template:Flagg | 9.24 | 2016[36] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 19.0 | 5.8 | 12.3 | 2014–15[54][55] |
| Template:Flagg | 16.2 | 8.8 | 12.3 | 2011[56] |
| Template:Flagg | 11.73 | 2016[22][57] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 8.95 | 2016[36][58] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 10.13 | 2016[22] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 12.08 | 2016[22] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 11.2 | 2018[59] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 16.9 | 5.3 | 11.5 | 2009[60] |
| Template:Flagg | 12.3 | 2016[22][61] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 18.2 | 4.2 | 11.2 | 2007 |
| Template:Flagg | 17 | 5.8 | 11.2 | 2011[62] |
| Template:Flagg | 18.0 | 6.0 | 12.0 | 2015[36] |
| Template:Flagg | 17.9 | 3.8 | 10.7 | 2006 |
| Template:Flagg | 13.0 | 7.8 | 10.5 | 2009 |
| Template:Flagg | 17.4 | 3.4 | 10.3 | 2013[63] |
| Template:Flagg | 13.3 | 7.3 | 10.3 | 2012[64] |
| Template:Flagg | 20.1 | 6.3 | 13.1 | 2019[65] |
| Template:Flagg | 7.48 | 2016[36] | ||
| Template:Flagg | [66] | 9.8 | 2014 | |
| Template:Flagg | 9.5 | 2019[67] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 14.1 | 3.6 | 8.8 | 2009 |
| Template:Flagg | 13.8 | 3.5 | 8.6 | 1998 |
| Template:Flagg | 12.7 | 4.1 | 8.3 | 2013[68] |
| Template:Flagg | 12.6 | 3.9 | 8.0 | 2009[36] |
| Template:Flagg | 12.9 | 3.6 | 8.0 | 2008 |
| Template:Flagg | 12.7 | 3.8 | 8.0 | 2016 |
| Template:Flagg | 10.6 | 5.2 | 7.9 | 1990 |
| Template:Flagg | 13.2 | 2.9 | 7.8 | 2008[36] |
| Template:Flagg | 12.6 | 3.0 | 7.7 | 2008 |
| Template:Flagg | 10.5 | 3.6 | 7.1 | 2009 |
| Template:Flagg | 11.8 | 1.9 | 6.8 | 2008 |
| Template:Flagg | 10.2 | 1.9 | 6.1 | 2009 |
| Template:Flagg | 9.7 | 2.58 | 6.03 | 2013[69] |
| Template:Flagg | 8.6 | 3.1 | 5.85 | 2011 |
| Template:Flagg | 9.9 | 2.1 | 5.8 | 2007[70] |
| Template:Flagg | 9.0 | 2.6 | 5.8 | 2006 |
| Template:Flagg | 9.0 | 1.9 | 5.5 | 2008 |
| Template:Flagg | 6.34 | 1.90 | 4.12 | 2019[71] |
| Template:Flagg | 7.9 | 2.0 | 4.9 | 2007 |
| Template:Flagg | 7.7 | 2.0 | 4.8 | 2008 |
| Template:Flagg | 7.0 | 2.3 | 4.7 | 2005 |
| Template:Flagg | 4.6 | 2008 | ||
| Template:Flagg | 7.1 | 1.7 | 4.3 | 2009 |
| Template:Flagg | 4.7 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 2003[72] |
| Template:Flagg | 6.8 | 1.3 | 4.0 | 2008 |
| Template:Flagg | 3.84 | 2011[73] | ||
| Template:Flagg | 4.0 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 2006 |
| Template:Flagg | 6.6 | 0.7 | 3.7 | 2008 |
| Template:Flagg | 5.4 | 1.9 | 3.7 | 2008 |
| Template:Flagg | 5.1 | 2.0 | 3.6 | 2008 |
| Template:Flagg | 5.9 | 1.3 | 3.6 | 2009[36] |
| Template:Flagg | 5.6 | 1.7 | 3.6 | 2008 |
| Template:Flagg | 7.3 | 0.0 | 3.5 | 2006 |
| Template:Flagg | 6.1 | 1.0 | 3.5 | 2009 |
| Template:Flagg | 5.9 | 1.0 | 3.4 | 2008 |
| Template:Flagg | 3.9 | 2.1 | 3.4 | 2013[74][75] |
| Template:Flagg | 4.5 | 1.0 | 2.75 | 2005[76] |
| Template:Flagg | 2.9 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 2001 |
| Template:Flagg | 4.9 | 0.0 | 2.4 | 2005 |
| Template:Flagg | 3.9 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 2005 |
| Template:Flagg | 2.8 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 2008 |
| Template:Flagg | 1.9 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 2009 |
| Template:Flagg | 1.9 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 2005 |
| Template:Flagg | 1.45 | 0.71 | 1.10 | 2012[77] |
| Template:Flagg | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 2000 |
| Template:Flagg | 0.0 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 1987 |
| Template:Flagg | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 2007 |
| Template:Flagg | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 2005 |
| Template:Flagg | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1990 |
| Template:Flagg | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1985 |
| Template:Flagg | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 2008[78] |
| Template:Flagg | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 2009 |
| Template:Flagg | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2008 |
| Template:Flagg | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1995 |
| Template:Flagg | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1995 |
| Template:Flagg | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2003 |
| Template:Flagg | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2003 |
See also
- Epidemiology of suicide
- Gender differences in suicide
- Suicide in the military
- List of countries by intentional death rate
- List of countries by intentional homicide rate
- List of countries by life expectancy
- List of suicide crisis lines
Explanatory notes
- ↑ About the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project. World Health Organization.
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- ↑ World health statistics 2024: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. World Health Organization(21 May 2024).
- ↑ Self-directed violence. www.who.int(2002).
- ↑ Men die by suicide at alarming rates. This hashtag tells men 'it's okay to talk' about their emotions.. Washington Post(31 August 2016).
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- ↑ The silent epidemic of male suicide. www.bcmj.org. BCMJ(2011).
- ↑ World health statistics 2024: Monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. World Health Organization(21 May 2024).
- ↑ Why more men than women die by suicide, Schumacher, Helene. www.bbc.com(18 March 2019). Retrieved 2021-12-21.
- ↑ Suicide. www.who.int. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
- ↑ Suicide. www.who.int. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
- ↑ Age-standardized suicide rates (per 100 000 population). WHO Data(18 January 2025).
- ↑ Preventing suicide - A global imperative. www.who.int(2014).
- ↑ Suicide Statistics — AFSP. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ↑ Suicide among First Nations people, Métis and Inuit (2011-2016): Findings from the 2011 Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (CanCHEC), Government of Canada, Statistics Canada. www150.statcan.gc.ca(2019-06-28). Retrieved 2023-12-07.
- ↑ Suicide prevention in Indigenous communities, Canada, Government of Canada; Indigenous Services. www.sac-isc.gc.ca(2019-12-11). Retrieved 2023-12-07.
- ↑ Suicide in the World. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health({Template:Year).
- ↑ Unless otherwise stated all statistics are from WHO: Suicide rates per 100,000 by country, year and sex (Table). World Health Organization. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
- ↑ Suicide. Our World in Data({Template:Date).
- ↑ 22.00 22.01 22.02 22.03 22.04 22.05 22.06 22.07 22.08 22.09 22.10 22.11 22.12 22.13 22.14 22.15 Tables, Graphs and Maps Interface (TGM) table. Eurostat. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
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- ↑ Mirties priežastys;. Hygiene Institute. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ↑ Causes of Death Statistics in 2021. Statistics Korea. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
- ↑ Trying To Stop Suicide: Guyana Aims To Bring Down Its High Rate. NPR.org(29 June 2018). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 GBD Results Tool.
- ↑ Rising suicide rate: too many questions, not enough answers, Wijesiri, Lionel. Daily News(8 September 2018). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ↑ National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus (for 2017);. Belstat. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 自殺死亡及自殺通報統計. 衛生福利部(5 December 2023). Retrieved 1 May 2017.
- ↑ Хаустова О. О. World_Bank
- ↑ Tasa de suicidios en Uruguay alcanza nuevo récord en 2022, un caso atípico en América. Associated Press News(21 July 2023).
- ↑ En Uruguay los suicidios son la principal causa de muerte entre los 15 y 44 años.
- ↑ WB
- ↑ Eurostat - Tables, Graphs and Maps Interface (TGM) table. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 36.2 36.3 36.4 36.5 36.6 36.7 Death Due To Suicide. European Commission. Retrieved 10 January 2010.
- ↑ 厚生労働省>白書・統計>各種統計調査>厚生労働統計一覧>1.人口・世帯>人口動態統計特殊報告>自殺死亡統計>12. 統計表>第1表 総死亡数・死亡率(人口10万対)・自殺死亡数・死亡率(人口10万対)の年次推移
- ↑ 厚生労働省>分野別の政策一覧>福祉・介護>生活保護・福祉一般>自殺対策>自殺統計>各年の状況>平成30年中における自殺の状況>第3章 平成30年中における自殺の内訳>33p 補表1-1 年次別自殺者数、34p 補表2-1 年齢階級別自殺者数の推移、35p 補表2-2 年齢階級別自殺死亡率. mhlw.go.jp. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ↑ Odsjek za mentalne poremećaje s registrom za psihoze i registrom izvršenih samoubojstava. HZJZ.
- ↑ World Suicide Death Rate Rankings (WHO)(16 December 2018).
- ↑ Suicide Mortality in South Africa. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology({Template:Date).. This data is for urban areas only. The data available for the whole of South Africa in 2007 are: men 1.4, women 0.4, total 0.9 (source: WHO)
- ↑ EU statistics: Death due to suicide, by gender. Statistics Estonia(2012). Retrieved 26 April 2013.
- ↑ SN11: SÄÄSTVA ARENGU NÄITAJAD ÜRO EESMÄRKIDE PÕHJAL. PxWeb. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
- ↑ Number of suicides 1921-2014, Statistics Finland(30 December 2015).
- ↑ Suicide in the World- Table 2 - Suicide by gender and age groups in WHO regions, estimates for 2008. Int J Environ Res Public Health({Template:Date).
- ↑ Suicide and Self-Inflicted Injury-FastStats. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(27 June 2019). Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ↑ The US suicide rate is up 33% since 1999, Howard, Jacqueline. CNN(20 June 2019). Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ↑ Suicide Statistics. AFSP(16 February 2016). Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ↑ Seasonality of Suicides among Victims Who Are under the Influence of Alcohol. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health({Template:Year).
- ↑ INFORMATION ABOUT THE MORTALITY OF THE POPULATION FOR THE CAUSES OF DEATH FOR THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION - January - December 2017. Rosstat. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
- ↑ BiH: Prošle godine ubilo se 507 lica, od čega 16 maloletnika. SRNA(16 April 2012). Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ Sebevraždy v České republice - 2011 až 2020. Produkty. Retrieved 2024-10-13.
- ↑ Health - Causes of Death in Germany.
- ↑ NZ suicide rates rise for first time in four years. New Zealand Herald(6 October 2015). Retrieved 6 October 2015.
- ↑ Chief Coroner releases provisional annual suicide figures for the 2014/15 year. Coronial Services of New Zealand(6 October 2015). Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- ↑ Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention.
- ↑ Dödsorsaker 2012. www.socialstyrelsen.se - 6 August 2013.pdf. Statistics Sweden(2013). Retrieved 13 September 2014.
- ↑ Estatística - Sociedade Portuguesa de Suicidologia. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ↑ Suicides in the UK - Office for National Statistics.
- ↑ Suicides and suicide rate, by sex and by age group, Canada(26 November 2020).
- ↑ 36 died from own hand. Morgunblaðið. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
- ↑ Développement durable, statistique, Office fédéral de la. www.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
- ↑ Vital Statistics - Fourth Quarter and Yearly Summary - 2013, Central Statistics Office.
- ↑ Suicide Statistics in Singapore, Samaritans of Singapore.
- ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics Causes of Death, Australia, 2021
- ↑ Back from the edge - The first of two articles on China's suicide rate looks at the effect of urbanisation. The Economist(28 June 2014).
- ↑ Hecho en socialismo: En 2019 tasa de suicidios rompió récord en Venezuela(2 January 2020).
- ↑ Suicides and suicide rate, by sex and by age group, Spain(27 June 2015).
- ↑ Suicide Rates: Thailand.
- ↑ Suicide in Israel - 1981-2009 Suicides, Suicide Attempts 2004-2010. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
- ↑ TÜİK - Statistics Data Portal. www.tuik.gov.tr.
- ↑ WHO Template:Pipe Suicide rates per 100,000 by country, year and sex (Table). Who.int(7 December 2009). Retrieved 30 September 2010.
- ↑ Mortalidad y otros (Mortality and others). IUDPAS(1 March 2011). Retrieved 22 January 2013.
- ↑ Iranian Legal Medicine Organization. Retrieved 12 January 2014. www.lmo.ir
- ↑ Tehran has the highest rate of suicide in Iran.. Bahar Newspaper. via Google Translate
- ↑ Suicide rate has steadily risen in Philippines for 21 years — report, Chief, Barbara Mae Dacanay, Bureau(17 July 2012).
- ↑ Based on a population of 180.4 million in 2012 (Population Reference Bureau), a sex ratio of 1.06 males/female (CIA World Factbook, 2013) and figures from 'State of Human Rights in 2012 Template:Webarchive' by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan: 1,976 persons committed suicide in 2012 across the country of which 626 were women.
- ↑ Suicide rates (per 100,000), by gender, Jordan, 1965-2008. World Health Organization.
- The updated figure of suicide rates in Belgium for 2011 is 2,084 with a total population of 10,933,607, equivalent to 18.96 per 100,000 inhabitants (source: Het Nieuwsblad, 10 April 2014).
- Taiwan is not a member of the WHO. The Taiwanese government adopted the WHO standard in 2007. According to the Taiwanese government's self-released data, the figure is standardized based upon the population within Taiwan.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Kaohsiung City Government. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ↑ Kaohsiung city government II. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
External links
- Suicide data and rates published by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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