Suicide rate in Puerto Rico

Suicide rate in Puerto Rico: 10 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 6.1 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.

Latest, 2017: 6.1 per 100,000 people
Since 1990: −4 per 100,000 people
World, 2017: 10 per 100,000 people

Watch it change on the map

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

Estimates, IHMEWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 10.2 per 100,000 people in 1993, the lowest 5.6 per 100,000 people in 2015.

Every year

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

Year	Puerto Rico	World
2017	6.1	10
2016	5.9	10.1
2015	5.6	10.2
2014	5.7	10.3
2013	6.1	10.5
2012	6.3	10.7
2011	6.8	11
2010	6.6	11.2
2009	7.1	11.4
2008	6.9	11.6
2007	6.9	11.7
2006	6.9	12
2005	7	12.5
2004	6.9	12.6
2003	6.8	12.8
2002	6.9	13
2001	7.5	13.4
2000	7.5	14.1
1999	7.6	14.5
1998	8.4	14.7
1997	8.2	15.1
1996	8.8	15.4
1995	9.4	15.9
1994	9.5	16.1
1993	10.2	16
1992	10	15.8
1991	10	15.5
1990	10	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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