Costa Rica

Suicide rate in Costa Rica

Suicide rate in Costa Rica: 6.4 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 7.8 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.

Latest, 2017
7.8 per 100,000 people
Since 1990
+1.4 per 100,000 people
Rank, 2017
121 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 Costa RicaSuicide rate in Costa Rica: 6.4 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 7.8 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates. The highest was 8 per 100,000 people in 2004, the lowest 6.2 per 100,000 people in 1991.
Estimates, IHMEWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 8 per 100,000 people in 2004, the lowest 6.2 per 100,000 people in 1991.

Every year

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

YearCosta RicaWorld
20177.810
20167.810.1
20157.410.2
2014710.3
20137.110.5
2012710.7
20117.211
20107.611.2
20096.911.4
2008711.6
2007711.7
20067.812
20057.412.5
2004812.6
20037.912.8
20027.613
20017.313.4
20007.314.1
19997.614.5
19987.314.7
1997715.1
19966.915.4
19957.215.9
19946.716.1
19936.416
19926.515.8
19916.215.5
19906.415.4

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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