Sri Lanka

Suicide rate in Sri Lanka

Suicide rate in Sri Lanka: 40.8 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 19.8 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.

Latest, 2017
19.8 per 100,000 people
Since 1990
−21 per 100,000 people
Rank, 2017
16 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 Sri LankaSuicide rate in Sri Lanka: 40.8 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 19.8 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates. The highest was 44.8 per 100,000 people in 1997, the lowest 19.8 per 100,000 people in 2017.
Estimates, IHMEWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 44.8 per 100,000 people in 1997, the lowest 19.8 per 100,000 people in 2017.

Every year

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

YearSri LankaWorld
201719.810
20162010.1
20152010.2
201420.210.3
201320.110.5
20122110.7
201121.311
20102111.2
200922.211.4
200824.611.6
200725.511.7
200626.612
200528.912.5
20043012.6
200331.812.8
200232.913
200135.713.4
200039.514.1
199940.614.5
199841.614.7
199744.815.1
199642.415.4
199541.415.9
199438.616.1
199336.816
199237.715.8
199137.915.5
199040.815.4

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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