Kuwait
Suicide rate in Kuwait
Suicide rate in Kuwait: 2.8 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 2.5 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.
- Latest, 2017
- 2.5 per 100,000 people
- Since 1990
- −0.3 per 100,000 people
- Rank, 2017
- 195 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 3.4 per 100,000 people in 1999, the lowest 2.4 per 100,000 people in 1992.
Every year
deaths per 100,000 people · IHME
| Year | Kuwait | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2.5 | 10 |
| 2016 | 2.5 | 10.1 |
| 2015 | 2.5 | 10.2 |
| 2014 | 2.5 | 10.3 |
| 2013 | 2.7 | 10.5 |
| 2012 | 2.7 | 10.7 |
| 2011 | 2.7 | 11 |
| 2010 | 2.8 | 11.2 |
| 2009 | 3 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 3.1 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 3.1 | 11.7 |
| 2006 | 3.1 | 12 |
| 2005 | 3.1 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 3 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 3 | 12.8 |
| 2002 | 3 | 13 |
| 2001 | 3 | 13.4 |
| 2000 | 3.3 | 14.1 |
| 1999 | 3.4 | 14.5 |
| 1998 | 3.2 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 3.1 | 15.1 |
| 1996 | 2.8 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 2.8 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 2.7 | 16.1 |
| 1993 | 2.5 | 16 |
| 1992 | 2.4 | 15.8 |
| 1991 | 2.5 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 2.8 | 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 spending4.69% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$7.92B in 2025
- Military spending per person$1,623 in 2025
- Military share of state spending10.1% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel25,000 people in 2020
- National power0.2% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.03% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports311 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports95 million TIV in 1998