India vs Kenya: Suicide rate

Suicide rate in 2017: 15.6 per 100,000 people in India and 11.1 per 100,000 people in Kenya, by IHME estimates. In 2017 the value was higher in India, by 4.5 per 100,000 people, or 1.41 times that in Kenya.

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deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

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What the numbers say

India 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	India	Kenya	World
2017	15.6	11.1	10
2016	15.7	11.2	10.1
2015	15.7	11.3	10.2
2014	16.3	11.5	10.3
2013	16.6	11.7	10.5
2012	17	12	10.7
2011	17.5	12.2	11
2010	17.3	12.3	11.2
2009	17.1	12.4	11.4
2008	17	12.5	11.6
2007	16.9	12.8	11.7
2006	17.2	13	12
2005	17.4	13.2	12.5
2004	17.2	13.3	12.6
2003	17.8	13.6	12.8
2002	18.5	13.4	13
2001	19.2	13.3	13.4
2000	19.7	13.4	14.1
1999	19.8	13.2	14.5
1998	19.5	13	14.7
1997	19.5	12.7	15.1
1996	18.9	12.4	15.4
1995	19.1	12.1	15.9
1994	19.4	11.9	16.1
1993	19.8	11.8	16
1992	20.4	11.6	15.8
1991	20.3	11.4	15.5
1990	20.2	11.3	15.4

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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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India vs Kenya: Suicide rate

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