Tonga
Suicide rate in Tonga
Suicide rate in Tonga: 5.7 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 6 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.
- Latest, 2017
- 6 per 100,000 people
- Since 1990
- +0.3 per 100,000 people
- Rank, 2017
- 147 of 195
- counting from the highest
- World, 2017
- 10 per 100,000 people
deaths per 100,000 people · IHME
What the numbers say
- The highest was 6.1 per 100,000 people in 2012, the lowest 5.5 per 100,000 people in 1995.
Every year
deaths per 100,000 people · IHME
| Year | Tonga | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | 10 |
| 2016 | 6 | 10.1 |
| 2015 | 6 | 10.2 |
| 2014 | 6 | 10.3 |
| 2013 | 6.1 | 10.5 |
| 2012 | 6.1 | 10.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | 11 |
| 2010 | 6.1 | 11.2 |
| 2009 | 6 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 5.9 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 6 | 11.7 |
| 2006 | 6 | 12 |
| 2005 | 6 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 6 | 12.8 |
| 2002 | 5.9 | 13 |
| 2001 | 5.8 | 13.4 |
| 2000 | 5.8 | 14.1 |
| 1999 | 5.8 | 14.5 |
| 1998 | 5.6 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 5.5 | 15.1 |
| 1996 | 5.5 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 5.5 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 5.6 | 16.1 |
| 1993 | 5.6 | 16 |
| 1992 | 5.6 | 15.8 |
| 1991 | 5.7 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 5.7 | 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.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time
Tonga in numbers
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