Gabon
Suicide rate in Gabon
Suicide rate in Gabon: 13 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 12.5 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.
- Latest, 2017
- 12.5 per 100,000 people
- Since 1990
- −0.4 per 100,000 people
- Rank, 2017
- 49 of 195
- counting from the highest
- World, 2017
- 10 per 100,000 people
deaths per 100,000 people · IHME
What the numbers say
- The highest was 14 per 100,000 people in 2001, the lowest 12.5 per 100,000 people in 2017.
Every year
deaths per 100,000 people · IHME
| Year | Gabon | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 12.5 | 10 |
| 2016 | 12.6 | 10.1 |
| 2015 | 12.7 | 10.2 |
| 2014 | 12.7 | 10.3 |
| 2013 | 12.7 | 10.5 |
| 2012 | 12.9 | 10.7 |
| 2011 | 13 | 11 |
| 2010 | 13 | 11.2 |
| 2009 | 13.4 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 13.5 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 13.6 | 11.7 |
| 2006 | 13.6 | 12 |
| 2005 | 13.6 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 13.7 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 13.8 | 12.8 |
| 2002 | 13.8 | 13 |
| 2001 | 14 | 13.4 |
| 2000 | 13.8 | 14.1 |
| 1999 | 13.7 | 14.5 |
| 1998 | 13.9 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 13.9 | 15.1 |
| 1996 | 14 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 13.8 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 13.3 | 16.1 |
| 1993 | 13.1 | 16 |
| 1992 | 13.2 | 15.8 |
| 1991 | 13 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 13 | 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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- Military spending1.66% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$337M in 2025
- Military spending per person$139 in 2025
- Military share of state spending6.5% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel7,000 people in 2020
- National power0.02% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports6 million TIV in 2024
- Arms exports1 million TIV in 1973