France
Suicide rate in France
Suicide rate in France: 21.3 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 12.4 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.
- Latest, 2017
- 12.4 per 100,000 people
- Since 1990
- −8.9 per 100,000 people
- Rank, 2017
- 50 of 195
- counting from the highest
- World, 2017
- 10 per 100,000 people
deaths per 100,000 people · IHME
Every year
deaths per 100,000 people · IHME
| Year | France | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 12.4 | 10 |
| 2016 | 12.5 | 10.1 |
| 2015 | 13 | 10.2 |
| 2014 | 13.2 | 10.3 |
| 2013 | 13.8 | 10.5 |
| 2012 | 14.3 | 10.7 |
| 2011 | 14.9 | 11 |
| 2010 | 15.3 | 11.2 |
| 2009 | 15.4 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 15.2 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 15.2 | 11.7 |
| 2006 | 15.5 | 12 |
| 2005 | 15.8 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 15.9 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 16.8 | 12.8 |
| 2002 | 17.1 | 13 |
| 2001 | 17.3 | 13.4 |
| 2000 | 17.5 | 14.1 |
| 1999 | 18.2 | 14.5 |
| 1998 | 18.8 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 19 | 15.1 |
| 1996 | 19.4 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 19.7 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 20.1 | 16.1 |
| 1993 | 20.8 | 16 |
| 1992 | 20.8 | 15.8 |
| 1991 | 21.1 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 21.3 | 15.4 |
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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