Sierra Leone

Suicide rate in Sierra Leone

Suicide rate in Sierra Leone: 7.7 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 9.9 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.

Latest, 2017
9.9 per 100,000 people
Since 1990
+2.2 per 100,000 people
Rank, 2017
84 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 Sierra LeoneSuicide rate in Sierra Leone: 7.7 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 9.9 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates. The highest was 10.3 per 100,000 people in 2010, the lowest 7.7 per 100,000 people in 1990.
Estimates, IHMEWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 10.3 per 100,000 people in 2010, the lowest 7.7 per 100,000 people in 1990.

Every year

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

YearSierra LeoneWorld
20179.910
20169.910.1
20151010.2
201410.110.3
201310.110.5
201210.310.7
201110.211
201010.311.2
200910.211.4
200810.111.6
200710.211.7
200610.112
200510.112.5
20041012.6
20031012.8
20029.913
20019.613.4
20009.414.1
19999.314.5
19989.114.7
19978.915.1
19968.515.4
19958.415.9
19948.116.1
1993816
19927.915.8
19917.815.5
19907.715.4

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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