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Suicide rate in Japan

Suicide rate in Japan: 15.5 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 15.7 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.

Latest, 2017
15.7 per 100,000 people
Since 1990
+0.1 per 100,000 people
Rank, 2017
27 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 JapanSuicide rate in Japan: 15.5 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 15.7 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates. The highest was 19.2 per 100,000 people in 2005, the lowest 14.8 per 100,000 people in 1994.
Estimates, IHMEWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 19.2 per 100,000 people in 2005, the lowest 14.8 per 100,000 people in 1994.

Every year

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

YearJapanWorld
201715.710
201615.610.1
201515.710.2
201416.410.3
201316.810.5
201217.310.7
201118.211
201018.411.2
200918.611.4
200818.711.6
200718.811.7
200618.912
200519.212.5
200418.912.6
20031912.8
200218.413
200118.313.4
200018.114.1
199918.214.5
199817.514.7
199715.815.1
199615.315.4
199515.215.9
199414.816.1
19931516
199215.215.8
199115.315.5
199015.515.4

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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