Namibia

Suicide rate in Namibia

Suicide rate in Namibia: 17.7 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 11.8 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.

Latest, 2017
11.8 per 100,000 people
Since 1990
−5.9 per 100,000 people
Rank, 2017
56 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 NamibiaSuicide rate in Namibia: 17.7 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 11.8 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates. The highest was 21.1 per 100,000 people in 2000, the lowest 11.8 per 100,000 people in 2017.
Estimates, IHMEWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 21.1 per 100,000 people in 2000, the lowest 11.8 per 100,000 people in 2017.

Every year

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

YearNamibiaWorld
201711.810
201611.910.1
20151210.2
201412.110.3
201312.410.5
201212.710.7
201113.111
201013.811.2
200914.411.4
200815.211.6
20071611.7
200617.112
200518.312.5
200419.312.6
200320.112.8
200220.713
200120.713.4
200021.114.1
199920.914.5
199820.514.7
199719.915.1
199619.515.4
19951915.9
199418.316.1
199317.916
199217.815.8
199117.615.5
199017.715.4

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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