Bangladesh vs Kenya: Suicide rate

Suicide rate in 2017: 6 per 100,000 people in Bangladesh and 11.1 per 100,000 people in Kenya, by IHME estimates. In 2017 the value was higher in Kenya, by 5 per 100,000 people, or 1.83 times that in Bangladesh.

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deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

BangladeshKenyaWorld

What the numbers say

Kenya has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1990.
The world as a whole: 10 per 100,000 people in 2017.

Every year

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

Year	Bangladesh	Kenya	World
2017	6	11.1	10
2016	6	11.2	10.1
2015	6.2	11.3	10.2
2014	6.4	11.5	10.3
2013	6.5	11.7	10.5
2012	6.7	12	10.7
2011	7.1	12.2	11
2010	7.5	12.3	11.2
2009	7.5	12.4	11.4
2008	7.6	12.5	11.6
2007	7.6	12.8	11.7
2006	7.5	13	12
2005	7.3	13.2	12.5
2004	7.2	13.3	12.6
2003	7.2	13.6	12.8
2002	7.4	13.4	13
2001	7.6	13.3	13.4
2000	7.9	13.4	14.1
1999	8.2	13.2	14.5
1998	8.6	13	14.7
1997	9	12.7	15.1
1996	9.5	12.4	15.4
1995	9.8	12.1	15.9
1994	9.8	11.9	16.1
1993	10.1	11.8	16
1992	10.1	11.6	15.8
1991	9.9	11.4	15.5
1990	10.5	11.3	15.4

Each country on its own

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Deaths by suicide in a year, per 100,000 people.
Source: IHME, Global Burden of Disease, via Our World in Data.
Ranks count the 195 countries with a value in 2017, highest first.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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Bangladesh vs Kenya: Suicide rate

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