Zimbabwe

Suicide rate in Zimbabwe

Suicide rate in Zimbabwe: 17.8 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 26.4 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.

Latest, 2017
26.4 per 100,000 people
Since 1990
+8.6 per 100,000 people
Rank, 2017
4 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 ZimbabweSuicide rate in Zimbabwe: 17.8 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 26.4 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates. The highest was 35.3 per 100,000 people in 2005, the lowest 17.1 per 100,000 people in 1991.
Estimates, IHMEWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 35.3 per 100,000 people in 2005, the lowest 17.1 per 100,000 people in 1991.

Every year

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

YearZimbabweWorld
201726.410
201626.810.1
201527.210.2
201427.610.3
201328.410.5
201229.410.7
201130.711
201032.411.2
200933.611.4
200834.311.6
200734.611.7
20063512
200535.312.5
200435.212.6
200334.412.8
20023413
200131.713.4
20003014.1
199927.214.5
199824.914.7
199722.615.1
199621.215.4
199520.715.9
199418.716.1
199317.716
199217.315.8
199117.115.5
199017.815.4

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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