South Korea

Suicide rate in South Korea

Suicide rate in South Korea: 11 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 20.8 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.

Latest, 2017
20.8 per 100,000 people
Since 1990
+9.8 per 100,000 people
Rank, 2017
14 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 KoreaSuicide rate in South Korea: 11 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 20.8 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates. The highest was 27.8 per 100,000 people in 2010, the lowest 10.8 per 100,000 people in 1992.
Estimates, IHMEWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 27.8 per 100,000 people in 2010, the lowest 10.8 per 100,000 people in 1992.

Every year

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

YearSouth KoreaWorld
201720.810
201621.210.1
201522.410.2
201423.510.3
201324.810.5
20122610.7
201127.211
201027.811.2
200927.611.4
200826.611.6
200725.611.7
200624.712
200524.712.5
20042412.6
20032312.8
200221.113
200119.613.4
200018.514.1
199917.714.5
19981714.7
199715.215.1
199614.115.4
199512.915.9
199411.916.1
199311.116
199210.815.8
199110.915.5
19901115.4

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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