Lesotho

Suicide rate in Lesotho

Suicide rate in Lesotho: 24.1 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 31.7 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.

Latest, 2017
31.7 per 100,000 people
Since 1990
+7.6 per 100,000 people
Rank, 2017
2 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 LesothoSuicide rate in Lesotho: 24.1 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 31.7 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates. The highest was 35.1 per 100,000 people in 2008, the lowest 22.6 per 100,000 people in 1995.
Estimates, IHMEWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 35.1 per 100,000 people in 2008, the lowest 22.6 per 100,000 people in 1995.

Every year

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

YearLesothoWorld
201731.710
201633.110.1
201534.310.2
201434.610.3
201334.710.5
201234.510.7
201134.311
201034.611.2
200934.611.4
200835.111.6
200734.411.7
200634.112
200533.812.5
200433.112.6
200332.212.8
200230.513
20012913.4
200028.214.1
199926.114.5
199824.814.7
199723.415.1
199622.815.4
199522.615.9
199422.716.1
199322.616
19922315.8
199123.415.5
199024.115.4

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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