Ireland

Suicide rate in Ireland

Suicide rate in Ireland: 10.3 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 8.4 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.

Latest, 2017
8.4 per 100,000 people
Since 1990
−1.9 per 100,000 people
Rank, 2017
111 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 IrelandSuicide rate in Ireland: 10.3 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 8.4 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates. The highest was 12.8 per 100,000 people in 2000, the lowest 8.4 per 100,000 people in 2016.
Estimates, IHMEWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 12.8 per 100,000 people in 2000, the lowest 8.4 per 100,000 people in 2016.

Every year

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

YearIrelandWorld
20178.410
20168.410.1
20158.810.2
20149.410.3
20139.810.5
201210.410.7
201110.811
201010.711.2
200911.611.4
200811.211.6
20071111.7
20061112
200511.112.5
200411.212.6
200311.312.8
200212.113
200112.413.4
200012.814.1
199912.614.5
199812.714.7
199712.515.1
199611.915.4
199511.615.9
199410.916.1
199310.816
199210.715.8
199110.615.5
199010.315.4

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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