Côte d’Ivoire vs South Sudan: Suicide rate

Suicide rate in 2017: 13.9 per 100,000 people in Côte d’Ivoire and 12 per 100,000 people in South Sudan, by IHME estimates. In 2017 the value was higher in Côte d’Ivoire, by 1.9 per 100,000 people, or 1.16 times that in South Sudan.

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deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

Côte d’IvoireSouth SudanWorld

What the numbers say

Côte d’Ivoire has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1990.
In 2017, Côte d’Ivoire ranked 36 and South Sudan ranked 54 of 195 countries, counting from the highest.
The world as a whole: 10 per 100,000 people in 2017.

Every year

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

Year	Côte d’Ivoire	South Sudan	World
2017	13.9	12	10
2016	14.1	12	10.1
2015	14.3	12	10.2
2014	14.5	12	10.3
2013	14.6	12.1	10.5
2012	14.6	12.2	10.7
2011	14.7	12.3	11
2010	14.7	12.4	11.2
2009	14.8	12.5	11.4
2008	15	12.6	11.6
2007	15.3	12.7	11.7
2006	15.5	12.7	12
2005	15.5	12.5	12.5
2004	15.6	12.6	12.6
2003	15.6	12.5	12.8
2002	15.7	12.4	13
2001	15.8	12.6	13.4
2000	15.9	13.2	14.1
1999	15.9	13.5	14.5
1998	15.9	13.9	14.7
1997	15.8	13.9	15.1
1996	15.7	14.4	15.4
1995	15.5	14.3	15.9
1994	15.1	14	16.1
1993	14.6	13.7	16
1992	14.1	13.3	15.8
1991	13.8	12.9	15.5
1990	13.5	12.8	15.4

Each country on its own

Good to know

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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Côte d’Ivoire vs South Sudan

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Deaths in conflictsCôte d’Ivoire: 0 deaths in 2022South Sudan: 679 deaths in 2022