Benin

Suicide rate in Benin

Suicide rate in Benin: 10.5 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 11.1 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.

Latest, 2017
11.1 per 100,000 people
Since 1990
+0.7 per 100,000 people
Rank, 2017
63 of 195
counting from the highest
World, 2017
10 per 100,000 people
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deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

Suicide rate in BeninSuicide rate in Benin: 10.5 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 11.1 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates. The highest was 12.3 per 100,000 people in 2002, the lowest 10.5 per 100,000 people in 1990.
Estimates, IHMEWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 12.3 per 100,000 people in 2002, the lowest 10.5 per 100,000 people in 1990.

Every year

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

YearBeninWorld
201711.110
201611.210.1
201511.410.2
201411.510.3
201311.710.5
201211.810.7
201111.711
201011.711.2
200911.711.4
200811.711.6
200711.811.7
200611.912
20051212.5
200412.112.6
200312.212.8
200212.313
200112.313.4
200012.314.1
199912.214.5
199812.114.7
19971215.1
199611.815.4
199511.615.9
199411.316.1
19931116
199210.915.8
199110.715.5
199010.515.4

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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