Zambia

Suicide rate in Zambia

Suicide rate in Zambia: 16.5 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 13.1 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.

Latest, 2017
13.1 per 100,000 people
Since 1990
−3.4 per 100,000 people
Rank, 2017
42 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 ZambiaSuicide rate in Zambia: 16.5 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 13.1 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates. The highest was 19 per 100,000 people in 1996, the lowest 13.1 per 100,000 people in 2014.
Estimates, IHMEWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 19 per 100,000 people in 1996, the lowest 13.1 per 100,000 people in 2014.

Every year

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

YearZambiaWorld
201713.110
201613.110.1
201513.110.2
201413.110.3
201313.110.5
201213.210.7
201113.411
201013.411.2
200913.411.4
200813.611.6
200713.711.7
200614.112
200514.312.5
200414.712.6
200315.212.8
200215.713
200116.313.4
20001714.1
199917.714.5
199818.414.7
199718.715.1
19961915.4
199518.915.9
199418.516.1
199318.116
199217.615.8
199117.115.5
199016.515.4

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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