List of countries by suicide rate

List of countries by suicide rate

One person in 5,000–15,000 dies by suicide every year, with an estimated global rate of 10. 5 per 100,000 population. Europe is the most suicidal region in the world, while the Eastern Mediterranean is the least. The most suicidal country in the entire world is by a wide margin Greenland.

About List of countries by suicide rate in brief

Summary List of countries by suicide rateAbout one person in 5,000–15,000 dies by suicide every year, with an estimated global rate of 10. 5 per 100,000 population down from 11. 6 in 2008. The most suicidal country in the entire world is by a wide margin Greenland, after its last decades modernizing transformation from remote colony to welfare state. India, of the South Asia region, is the greatest contributor to the absolute number of suicide deaths.

Europe is the most suicidal region in the world, while the Eastern Mediterranean is the least. According to a recent study, the global rates of suicide death have fallen by a third between 1990 and 2016 if data is asymmetrically adjusted for age.