Denmark

Suicide rate in Denmark

Suicide rate in Denmark: 23.9 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 8.8 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.

Latest, 2017
8.8 per 100,000 people
Since 1990
−15.1 per 100,000 people
Rank, 2017
104 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 DenmarkSuicide rate in Denmark: 23.9 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 8.8 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates. The highest was 23.9 per 100,000 people in 1990, the lowest 8.5 per 100,000 people in 2015.
Estimates, IHMEWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 23.9 per 100,000 people in 1990, the lowest 8.5 per 100,000 people in 2015.

Every year

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

YearDenmarkWorld
20178.810
20168.710.1
20158.510.2
20148.710.3
20138.910.5
20129.110.7
20119.411
20109.811.2
200910.211.4
200810.311.6
200710.811.7
200610.812
200510.712.5
200411.412.6
200311.812.8
200212.313
200112.413.4
20001314.1
199914.714.5
199814.714.7
199715.915.1
199617.315.4
199518.415.9
199419.816.1
19932116
199221.615.8
199122.515.5
199023.915.4

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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