South Africa

Suicide rate in South Africa

Suicide rate in South Africa: 18.6 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 11.2 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.

Latest, 2017
11.2 per 100,000 people
Since 1990
−7.4 per 100,000 people
Rank, 2017
62 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 South AfricaSuicide rate in South Africa: 18.6 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 11.2 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates. The highest was 24.3 per 100,000 people in 2000, the lowest 10.8 per 100,000 people in 2015.
Estimates, IHMEWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 24.3 per 100,000 people in 2000, the lowest 10.8 per 100,000 people in 2015.

Every year

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

YearSouth AfricaWorld
201711.210
201610.910.1
201510.810.2
201410.810.3
201311.110.5
201211.910.7
201112.911
201014.611.2
200916.311.4
200817.911.6
200719.211.7
200620.612
200521.512.5
200422.512.6
200323.112.8
200223.113
20012313.4
200024.314.1
199922.414.5
199821.614.7
199720.915.1
199619.115.4
199518.615.9
199418.616.1
199318.316
199219.215.8
199118.615.5
199018.615.4

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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