Suicide rate in 1980 vs. 2021
Estimated aumber of suicides per 100,000 people in a given population and year. Suicide deaths are underreported inmany countries due to social stigma and cultural or legal concerns. This data is based on modeling of global suicidepatterns, and includes adjustments that aim to account for missing data and underreporting.
Country/area | Suicide rate in 1980 deaths per 100,000 • 1980 | Population people • 1980 | World regions according to OWID 1980 | Suicide rate deaths per 100,000 • 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 8.0 | 13,169,312 | 5.3 | |
| Aland Islands | ||||
| Albania | 5.5 | 2,735,423 | 3.2 | |
| Algeria | 8.1 | 18,607,175 | 2.9 | |
| American Samoa | 7.8 | 32,427 | 8.4 | |
| Andorra | 11.2 | 35,802 | 5.7 | |
| Angola | 18.4 | 8,133,868 | 13.8 | |
| Anguilla | 6,612 | |||
| Antigua and Barbuda | 2.1 | 64,529 | 1.2 | |
| Argentina | 8.2 | 28,011,596 | 9.6 | |
| Armenia | 4.6 | 3,107,420 | 4.5 | |
| Aruba | 62,050 | |||
| Australia | 11.5 | 14,721,343 | 11.3 | |
| Austria | 23.7 | 7,548,405 | 10.0 | |
| Austria-Hungary | ||||
| Azerbaijan | 3.9 | 6,284,707 | 2.3 | |
| Bahamas | 3.2 | 232,539 | 2.4 | |
| Bahrain | 7.9 | 358,991 | 3.9 | |
| Bangladesh | 5.8 | 88,016,436 | 3.7 | |
| Barbados | 4.1 | 251,532 | 3.5 | |
| Belarus | 24.3 | 9,603,173 | 16.1 | |
| Belgium | 20.5 | 9,833,093 | 13.1 | |
| Belize | 5.4 | 145,072 | 5.5 | |
| Benin | 9.8 | 3,925,258 | 9.8 | |
| Bermuda | 6.1 | 53,692 | 2.6 | |
| Bhutan | 8.8 | 433,412 | 5.9 | |
| Bolivia | 6.7 | 5,758,905 | 5.7 | |
| Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba | 11,802 | |||
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 18.1 | 4,148,428 | 7.7 | |
| Botswana | 16.7 | 937,493 | 10.5 | |
| Brazil | 8.0 | 121,207,450 | 7.1 | |
| British Indian Ocean Territory | ||||
| British Virgin Islands | 11,148 | |||
| Brunei | 5.4 | 186,121 | 3.7 | |
| Bulgaria | 12.3 | 8,859,538 | 9.3 | |
| Burkina Faso | 15.6 | 6,947,900 | 12.6 | |
| Burundi | 21.3 | 4,383,713 | 13.8 | |
| Cambodia | 7.3 | 5,199,873 | 4.9 | |
| Cameroon | 10.6 | 8,512,216 | 12.4 | |
| Canada | 14.1 | 24,533,779 | 11.1 | |
| Cape Verde | 13.1 | 323,311 | 15.9 | |
| Cayman Islands | 17,102 | |||
| Central African Republic | 21.0 | 2,450,536 | 19.6 | |
| Chad | 7.6 | 4,515,462 | 11.7 | |
| Chile | 17.5 | 11,508,552 | 9.2 | |
| China | 25.8 | 983,163,545 | 7.1 | |
| Christmas Island | ||||
| Cocos Islands | ||||
| Colombia | 5.0 | 26,104,502 | 6.2 | |
| Comoros | 11.2 | 337,728 | 8.3 | |
| Congo | 21.0 | 1,828,990 | 14.2 | |
| Cook Islands | 19.5 | 17,718 | 10.8 | |
| Costa Rica | 5.7 | 2,390,640 | 8.9 | |
| Cote d'Ivoire | 11.6 | 8,220,717 | 12.5 | |
| Croatia | 19.7 | 4,643,902 | 9.3 | |
| Cuba | 18.5 | 9,804,798 | 11.0 | |
| Curacao | 156,664 | |||
| Cyprus | 7.8 | 683,082 | 3.2 | |
| Czechia | 20.2 | 10,275,404 | 9.2 | |
| Czechoslovakia | 15,250,000 | |||
| Democratic Republic of Congo | 16.9 | 26,711,097 | 14.4 | |
| Democratic Republic of Vietnam | ||||
| Denmark | 28.0 | 5,123,078 | 7.8 | |
| Djibouti | 7.3 | 325,821 | 8.6 | |
| Dominica | 3.4 | 73,101 | 3.7 | |
| Dominican Republic | 5.5 | 5,729,043 | 5.3 | |
| Duchy of Modena and Reggio | ||||
| Duchy of Parma and Piacenza | ||||
| East Germany | ||||
| East Timor | 7.4 | 649,877 | 4.7 | |
| Ecuador | 3.8 | 8,165,882 | 8.4 | |
| Egypt | 1.6 | 43,950,414 | 1.1 | |
| El Salvador | 13.8 | 4,540,380 | 8.2 | |
| Equatorial Guinea | 19.1 | 288,651 | 12.1 | |
| Eritrea | 17.4 | 1,605,801 | 15.7 | |
| Estonia | 30.3 | 1,476,465 | 11.2 | |
| Eswatini | 17.0 | 596,657 | 21.9 | |
| Ethiopia | 23.6 | 34,428,516 | 11.3 | |
| Ethiopia (former) | 38,610,000 | |||
| Falkland Islands | 2,271 | |||
| Faroe Islands | 43,092 | |||
| Federal Republic of Central America | ||||
| Fiji | 10.7 | 641,985 | 9.2 | |
| Finland | 23.8 | 4,779,361 | 12.0 | |
| France | 20.1 | 53,941,061 | 10.1 | |
| French Guiana | 66,364 | |||
| French Polynesia | 156,485 | |||
| Gabon | 13.8 | 748,395 | 13.7 | |
| Gambia | 6.8 | 713,920 | 9.6 | |
| Georgia | 6.3 | 5,165,545 | 7.2 | |
| Germany | 15.4 | 78,315,374 | 8.2 | |
| Ghana | 6.6 | 11,941,452 | 8.7 | |
| Gibraltar | 28,696 | |||
| Grand Duchy of Baden | ||||
| Grand Duchy of Tuscany | ||||
| Great Colombia | ||||
| Greece | 3.1 | 9,653,418 | 3.6 | |
| Grenada | 6.0 | 94,553 | 4.1 | |
| Guadeloupe | 331,218 | |||
| Guam | 20.3 | 110,154 | 16.7 | |
| Guatemala | 3.7 | 6,900,217 | 5.5 | |
| Guernsey | 53,956 | |||
| Guinea | 6.9 | 5,047,425 | 8.9 | |
| Guinea-Bissau | 14.2 | 829,315 | 15.1 | |
| Guyana | 20.6 | 774,372 | 31.5 | |
| Haiti | 10.7 | 5,614,494 | 8.6 | |
| Honduras | 4.7 | 3,727,179 | 4.7 | |
| Hong Kong | 4,962,487 | |||
| Hungary | 37.7 | 10,695,370 | 11.6 | |
| Iceland | 14.3 | 228,147 | 10.3 | |
| India | 20.5 | 687,354,031 | 13.0 | |
| Indonesia | 2.0 | 148,950,537 | 1.7 | |
| Iran | 5.9 | 39,842,324 | 4.1 | |
| Iraq | 6.4 | 13,591,998 | 4.9 | |
| Ireland | 10.5 | 3,415,239 | 7.0 | |
| Isle of Man | 64,103 | |||
| Israel | 7.8 | 3,721,666 | 4.8 | |
| Italy | 6.4 | 56,412,088 | 4.3 | |
| Jamaica | 1.3 | 2,145,661 | 1.3 | |
| Japan | 18.0 | 118,358,761 | 13.2 | |
| Jersey | 76,548 | |||
| Jordan | 4.1 | 2,234,193 | 1.1 | |
| Kazakhstan | 26.6 | 15,152,952 | 18.0 | |
| Kenya | 11.2 | 16,018,464 | 11.7 | |
| Kingdom of Bavaria | ||||
| Kingdom of Sardinia | ||||
| Kingdom of Saxony | ||||
| Kingdom of Wurttemberg | ||||
| Kingdom of the Two Sicilies | ||||
| Kiribati | 16.9 | 61,170 | 17.6 | |
| Korea (former) | ||||
| Kosovo | 1,604,827 | |||
| Kuwait | 0.9 | 1,504,788 | 1.8 | |
| Kyrgyzstan | 19.7 | 3,729,371 | 10.0 | |
| Laos | 12.2 | 3,292,574 | 5.5 | |
| Latvia | 29.0 | 2,511,754 | 14.3 | |
| Lebanon | 1.8 | 2,944,766 | 0.9 | |
| Lesotho | 13.8 | 1,406,529 | 24.3 | |
| Liberia | 9.1 | 1,929,262 | 11.3 | |
| Libya | 4.5 | 3,424,375 | 4.9 | |
| Liechtenstein | 25,113 | |||
| Lithuania | 34.1 | 3,428,416 | 20.6 | |
| Luxembourg | 16.9 | 363,710 | 6.5 | |
| Macao | 246,108 | |||
| Madagascar | 12.0 | 9,006,039 | 11.0 | |
| Malawi | 13.9 | 6,265,530 | 14.8 | |
| Malaysia | 7.9 | 12,983,361 | 5.1 | |
| Maldives | 7.2 | 164,843 | 2.0 | |
| Mali | 8.6 | 7,530,521 | 8.1 | |
| Malta | 5.4 | 342,882 | 3.6 | |
| Marshall Islands | 19.8 | 30,793 | 20.0 | |
| Martinique | 332,291 | |||
| Mauritania | 5.6 | 1,474,047 | 5.9 | |
| Mauritius | 5.0 | 954,222 | 9.3 | |
| Mayotte | 50,163 | |||
| Mexico | 3.3 | 67,300,338 | 6.5 | |
| Micronesia (country) | 25.8 | 77,420 | 20.1 | |
| Moldova | 20.3 | 4,048,713 | 11.3 | |
| Monaco | 14.4 | 27,146 | 11.7 | |
| Mongolia | 17.5 | 1,701,341 | 15.2 | |
| Montenegro | 17.3 | 584,830 | 12.1 | |
| Montserrat | 11,363 | |||
| Morocco | 6.0 | 19,459,942 | 3.6 | |
| Mozambique | 14.3 | 11,336,218 | 17.7 | |
| Myanmar | 6.1 | 33,227,203 | 3.6 | |
| Namibia | 13.8 | 981,439 | 13.7 | |
| Nauru | 28.7 | 7,670 | 24.6 | |
| Nepal | 20.1 | 15,553,107 | 14.2 | |
| Netherlands | 10.8 | 14,162,687 | 8.6 | |
| Netherlands Antilles | 171,309 | |||
| New Caledonia | 149,828 | |||
| New Zealand | 10.5 | 3,146,324 | 10.2 | |
| Nicaragua | 6.5 | 3,252,404 | 5.8 | |
| Niger | 7.8 | 6,135,969 | 7.9 | |
| Nigeria | 9.4 | 73,764,644 | 8.3 | |
| Niue | 15.8 | 3,550 | 15.4 | |
| Norfolk Island | ||||
| North Korea | 12.8 | 18,236,782 | 9.1 | |
| North Macedonia | 8.2 | 1,933,044 | 6.1 | |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 15.2 | 17,645 | 15.3 | |
| Norway | 13.2 | 4,085,601 | 9.8 | |
| Oman | 2.1 | 1,001,248 | 1.0 | |
| Orange Free State | ||||
| Pakistan | 5.2 | 82,291,008 | 6.4 | |
| Pakistan (former) | ||||
| Palau | 17.9 | 12,296 | 15.3 | |
| Palestine | 1.2 | 1,469,058 | 0.9 | |
| Panama | 3.7 | 1,957,544 | 5.1 | |
| Papua New Guinea | 3.1 | 3,131,517 | 2.8 | |
| Paraguay | 4.7 | 3,053,239 | 5.9 | |
| Peru | 1.8 | 17,360,954 | 2.8 | |
| Philippines | 4.2 | 48,043,744 | 3.8 | |
| Pitcairn | ||||
| Poland | 15.3 | 35,576,518 | 12.1 | |
| Portugal | 5.0 | 9,763,622 | 7.2 | |
| Puerto Rico | 10.0 | 3,213,681 | 5.2 | |
| Qatar | 8.4 | 275,923 | 3.4 | |
| Republic of Vietnam | ||||
| Reunion | 553,141 | |||
| Romania | 9.5 | 22,154,776 | 7.9 | |
| Russia | 33.4 | 138,572,628 | 19.9 | |
| Rwanda | 21.6 | 5,353,263 | 11.9 | |
| Saint Barthelemy | 2,991 | |||
| Saint Helena | 6,413 | |||
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 5.2 | 42,868 | 2.4 | |
| Saint Lucia | 8.2 | 119,303 | 5.6 | |
| Saint Martin (French part) | 8,308 | |||
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 6,192 | |||
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 6.1 | 104,227 | 5.4 | |
| Samoa | 16.8 | 164,335 | 13.6 | |
| San Marino | 14.5 | 21,608 | 5.4 | |
| Sao Tome and Principe | 1.4 | 98,562 | 1.5 | |
| Saudi Arabia | 8.7 | 6,047,996 | 6.6 | |
| Senegal | 12.7 | 5,845,639 | 12.5 | |
| Serbia | 21.8 | 7,796,286 | 10.9 | |
| Serbia and Montenegro | 9,395,706 | |||
| Seychelles | 5.7 | 66,280 | 5.1 | |
| Sierra Leone | 7.1 | 3,272,096 | 8.5 | |
| Singapore | 19.6 | 2,437,496 | 6.6 | |
| Sint Maarten (Dutch part) | 12,432 | |||
| Slovakia | 15.6 | 4,976,659 | 9.3 | |
| Slovenia | 33.5 | 1,903,076 | 10.9 | |
| Solomon Islands | 21.7 | 238,147 | 19.9 | |
| Somalia | 13.9 | 5,936,154 | 12.9 | |
| South Africa | 20.4 | 29,518,856 | 14.7 | |
| South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | ||||
| South Korea | 18.6 | 38,141,109 | 18.1 | |
| South Sudan | 13.3 | 4,339,041 | 15.1 | |
| Spain | 4.8 | 37,537,561 | 5.4 | |
| Sri Lanka | 33.8 | 14,847,972 | 15.1 | |
| Sudan | 6.7 | 17,058,908 | 4.7 | |
| Suriname | 27.5 | 375,393 | 22.2 | |
| Sweden | 22.2 | 8,310,470 | 9.9 | |
| Switzerland | 22.2 | 6,319,848 | 8.2 | |
| Syria | 1.8 | 8,957,664 | 0.9 | |
| Taiwan | 14.5 | 18,086,522 | 11.3 | |
| Tajikistan | 7.1 | 3,995,259 | 3.9 | |
| Tanzania | 12.8 | 19,189,770 | 9.8 | |
| Thailand | 14.9 | 45,650,030 | 10.1 | |
| Togo | 8.9 | 2,920,906 | 12.5 | |
| Tokelau | 17.9 | 1,679 | 15.7 | |
| Tonga | 6.3 | 97,784 | 5.2 | |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 13.8 | 1,121,749 | 11.9 | |
| Tunisia | 4.7 | 6,606,195 | 2.9 | |
| Turkey | 4.6 | 45,408,816 | 3.6 | |
| Turkmenistan | 12.5 | 2,832,201 | 9.9 | |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 7,584 | |||
| Tuvalu | 23.0 | 7,387 | 16.6 | |
| USSR | 265,483,688 | |||
| Uganda | 12.7 | 13,275,750 | 11.6 | |
| Ukraine | 22.4 | 49,955,148 | 18.6 | |
| United Arab Emirates | 5.2 | 1,015,709 | 2.8 | |
| United Kingdom | 10.4 | 56,282,102 | 7.2 | |
| United States | 12.1 | 229,858,654 | 13.0 | |
| United States Virgin Islands | 8.3 | 96,579 | 6.5 | |
| Uruguay | 10.2 | 2,951,956 | 18.2 | |
| Uzbekistan | 10.5 | 15,619,936 | 9.1 | |
| Vanuatu | 21.5 | 115,683 | 17.6 | |
| Vatican | 754 | |||
| Venezuela | 6.1 | 15,258,226 | 8.0 | |
| Vietnam | 11.0 | 52,490,098 | 7.7 | |
| Wallis and Futuna | 11,139 | |||
| West Germany | ||||
| Western Sahara | 117,389 | |||
| Yemen | 6.6 | 9,543,357 | 4.5 | |
| Yemen Arab Republic | 6,483,000 | |||
| Yemen People's Republic | 1,898,000 | |||
| Yugoslavia | 21,620,000 | |||
| Zambia | 13.5 | 5,802,841 | 14.9 | |
| Zimbabwe | 18.0 | 7,041,304 | 23.8 | |
| Other | ||||
| Africa | 483,051,703 | |||
| Africa (UN) | 483,051,387 | |||
| African Region (WHO) | 13.5 | 10.9 | ||
| Akrotiri and Dhekelia | ||||
| Americas (UN) | 614,995,559 | |||
| Americas (WHO) | 9.7 | 9.2 | ||
| Asia | 2,631,643,578 | |||
| Asia (UN) | 2,632,326,534 | |||
| Asia (excl. China and India) | 953,128,576 | |||
| East Asia & Pacific (WB) | 20.1 | 7.1 | ||
| Eastern Mediterranean (WHO) | 5.1 | 4.5 | ||
| Europe | 694,962,025 | |||
| Europe & Central Asia (WB) | 18.2 | 10.5 | ||
| Europe (UN) | 694,278,653 | |||
| Europe (excl. Russia) | 552,930,496 | |||
| European Region (WHO) | 18.1 | 10.4 | ||
| European Union (27) | 406,687,009 | |||
| High-income countries | 14.5 | 956,729,253 | 10.7 | |
| Latin America & Caribbean (WB) | 7.3 | 7.1 | ||
| Latin America and the Caribbean (UN) | 360,493,169 | |||
| Low-income countries | 12.4 | 226,853,032 | 9.6 | |
| Lower-middle-income countries | 14.4 | 1,442,021,896 | 9.3 | |
| Middle East & North Africa (WB) | 4.9 | 3.3 | ||
| North America | 374,396,442 | |||
| North America (WB) | 12.3 | 12.8 | ||
| Northern America (UN) | 254,502,384 | |||
| Oceania | 22,954,479 | |||
| Oceania (UN) | 22,954,137 | |||
| South America | 240,599,662 | |||
| South America (excl. Brazil) | 119,263,960 | |||
| South Asia (WB) | 17.9 | 11.4 | ||
| South-East Asia (WHO) | 16.2 | 10.3 | ||
| Sub-Saharan Africa (WB) | 13.5 | 11.2 | ||
| Svalbard and Jan Mayen | 294 | |||
| Upper-middle-income countries | 20.5 | 1,820,390,317 | 7.9 | |
| Western Pacific (WHO) | 22.5 | 7.6 | ||
| World | 16.6 | 4,447,606,208 | 9.0 |
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