Ireland vs Kenya: Suicide rate

Suicide rate in 2017: 8.4 per 100,000 people in Ireland and 11.1 per 100,000 people in Kenya, by IHME estimates. In 2017 the value was higher in Kenya, by 2.7 per 100,000 people, or 1.32 times that in Ireland.

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deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

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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	Ireland	Kenya	World
2017	8.4	11.1	10
2016	8.4	11.2	10.1
2015	8.8	11.3	10.2
2014	9.4	11.5	10.3
2013	9.8	11.7	10.5
2012	10.4	12	10.7
2011	10.8	12.2	11
2010	10.7	12.3	11.2
2009	11.6	12.4	11.4
2008	11.2	12.5	11.6
2007	11	12.8	11.7
2006	11	13	12
2005	11.1	13.2	12.5
2004	11.2	13.3	12.6
2003	11.3	13.6	12.8
2002	12.1	13.4	13
2001	12.4	13.3	13.4
2000	12.8	13.4	14.1
1999	12.6	13.2	14.5
1998	12.7	13	14.7
1997	12.5	12.7	15.1
1996	11.9	12.4	15.4
1995	11.6	12.1	15.9
1994	10.9	11.9	16.1
1993	10.8	11.8	16
1992	10.7	11.6	15.8
1991	10.6	11.4	15.5
1990	10.3	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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Ireland vs Kenya: Suicide rate

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