India

Suicide rate in India

Suicide rate in India: 20.2 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 15.6 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.

Latest, 2017
15.6 per 100,000 people
Since 1990
−4.6 per 100,000 people
Rank, 2017
28 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 IndiaSuicide rate in India: 20.2 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 15.6 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates. The highest was 20.4 per 100,000 people in 1992, the lowest 15.6 per 100,000 people in 2017.
Estimates, IHMEWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 20.4 per 100,000 people in 1992, the lowest 15.6 per 100,000 people in 2017.

Every year

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

YearIndiaWorld
201715.610
201615.710.1
201515.710.2
201416.310.3
201316.610.5
20121710.7
201117.511
201017.311.2
200917.111.4
20081711.6
200716.911.7
200617.212
200517.412.5
200417.212.6
200317.812.8
200218.513
200119.213.4
200019.714.1
199919.814.5
199819.514.7
199719.515.1
199618.915.4
199519.115.9
199419.416.1
199319.816
199220.415.8
199120.315.5
199020.215.4

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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