What is the suicide rate in each country?
Leaving aside 2 countries or territories whose register covers under half of deaths, for the 100 countries and territories where the WHO death register and WHO's modelled estimate cover the same year (2018 or later), the two crude rates are within 25% of each other in 58, the estimate is the higher one in 82, and in 72 of the 138 countries with a register line the deaths coded as undetermined intent equal 25% or more of the self-harm count.
deaths by suicide per 100,000 people
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Each source's value links to its publisher; point at it for the source and year. A value in brackets is shown but doesn't count, and pointing at it says why. Retrieved 2026-10-25, 2026-11-02.
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- World Health Organization (WHO) · International bodyFunding: Assessed contributions (membership dues) from member states, plus voluntary contributions from member states and other partners. sourceIn its own words: “…WHO is the United Nations agency that connects nations, partners and people to promote health…” source, retrieved 2026-10-27
- Eurostat · International bodyFunding: EU budget; Eurostat is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. The gender-based violence survey was run with the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), also EU-funded. sourceIn its own words: “Our mission is to provide high-quality statistics and data on Europe.” source, retrieved 2026-10-27
- WHO Global Health Estimates 2023, self-harmUsed for 183 countries; counts toward 183. Years 2018 to 2023. Retrieved 2026-11-02.Open the publisher's page
- WHO Mortality Database, deaths by intentional self-harmUsed for 138 countries; counts toward 131. Years 2003 to 2024. Retrieved 2026-10-25.Not counted where: too few deaths were registered that year for its rate to count (each row says how many).Open the publisher's page
- Eurostat causes of death, crude death rate (hlth_cd_acdr2)Used for 36 countries; counts toward 1. Years 2018 to 2023. Retrieved 2026-11-02.Not counted where: it republishes WHO register.Open the publisher's pageData (API)
Why the numbers differ (6)
- Every line uses the crude rate (all deaths divided by the whole population), so the lines can agree. Crude rates also reflect how old a population is, so they are not the same as age-standardised rates.
- The register line counts only deaths coded X60-X84. Deaths coded as undetermined intent (Y10-Y34) stay outside it, and in 72 countries they equal 25% or more of the self-harm count in the year shown, so how intent is coded changes the rate. Each such line says so. (source, retrieved 2026-10-25)
- WHO's estimate adjusts the register: it reassigns ill-defined deaths, moves some deaths of undetermined intent into causes that include self-harm, and scales totals to its all-cause estimates. Its cause group also adds Y87.0. For countries with no usable register the figure comes from modelling. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Registration coverage differs. Where many deaths are never registered or have no medically certified cause, the register rate counts only part of the deaths. WHO's estimate can sit above or below the register rate in such countries, because it also rests on modelling.
- Recording rules differ between countries. WHO notes that stigma, and the illegal status of suicidal behaviour in some countries, make under-reporting and misclassification likely. These are differences in how deaths are recorded; the page does not explain the rates themselves. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- Eurostat and the WHO register hold the same national death records, as their death counts show. Eurostat adds Y87.0, counts residents who died abroad and uses its own population, so its rate can differ slightly. It is shown but not counted as a separate source. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
Common mistakes (3)
- National suicide statistics can use another definition. For England and Wales, the Office for National Statistics adds deaths of undetermined intent at ages 15 and over and counts self-harm from age 10, so its figures do not match the WHO register line here. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- In countries with small populations a few deaths move the rate a lot, so a single year says little about the level, and WHO blanks very small counts in some files.
- Ranking countries on a modelled figure overstates what is known. WHO itself warns against over-interpreting detailed rankings of deaths by cause or country (methods paper, section 8). (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
Context (6)
- If you or someone you know needs support now, Find a Helpline lists free crisis lines by country. Retrieved 2026-11-02.
- WHO fact sheet on suicide. Retrieved 2026-11-02.
- WHO age-standardised suicide rates, which adjust for the age of each population. They are a different number from the crude rates on this page. Retrieved 2026-11-02.
- WHO methods and data sources for the Global Health Estimates 2000-2023 (Table 4.1 rates each country's death registration data). Retrieved 2026-11-02.
- WHO rating of death registration completeness and usability by country. Retrieved 2026-10-25.
- Eurostat metadata for causes-of-death statistics. Retrieved 2026-11-02.
Sources considered and not used (7)
- WHO GHO OData API (ghoapi.azureedge.net), indicator SDGSUICIDE: Every request returned a server error on 2 November 2026, so WHO's newer GHE table on its public data API was used instead. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- WHO data.who.int download of indicator SDGSUICIDE (16BBF41_ALL_LATEST.csv): Same WHO series in an older release: the file ends in 2021, while the GHE 2023 table used here runs to 2023. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- WHO Mortality Database, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland rows: WHO's estimate and Eurostat give only the United Kingdom, so the page uses WHO's UK total.
- WHO Mortality Database, Rodrigues and former entities: Rodrigues is part of Mauritius, and former entities are not current countries.
- Eurostat crude rates for Albania and North Macedonia: These appear only in the table that ends in 2010, not in the current rate table, so there is no recent Eurostat figure to show. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
- WHO Mortality Database, ICD-7 file: The ICD-7 file (morticd07.zip) ends in 1972, before the 1980 start of the series. (source, retrieved 2026-10-27)
- Eurostat death counts for 2024 (hlth_cd_aro): A count without a published crude rate; the rate table ends in 2023 and this page does not compute a Eurostat rate itself. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
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