Countries by suicide mortality rate, 2021

Lesotho had the highest suicide mortality rate of 185 countries in 2021, at 28.7 per 100,000 people. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines had the lowest, at 0.4 per 100,000 people. The median was 7.4 per 100,000 people. Source: World Health Organization.

Highest28.7Lesotho

Lowest0.4Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Median7.4185 countries

Top 40 countries, 2021

per 100,000 people. Source: World Health Organization, Suicide mortality rate (per 100 000 population), both sexes, all ages (SDGSUICIDE). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2021 per 100,000 people	Change on 2020
1	Lesotho	28.7	-4.7 pts
2	South Korea	27.5	+0.4 pts
3	Eswatini	27.2	+3.4 pts
4	Guyana	24.8	-4.7 pts
5	Uruguay	24.8	+2 pts
6	South Africa	22.3	+1.2 pts
7	Suriname	22.3	-6.2 pts
8	Lithuania	22.1	-2.4 pts
9	Russia	21.4	+0.4 pts
10	Ukraine	21.2	-0.9 pts
11	Micronesia	19.8	+0.6 pts
12	Solomon Islands	19.6	+0.1 pts
13	Slovenia	18.9	+1.1 pts
14	Mongolia	18.5	-0.3 pts
15	Belgium	18.4	+1.5 pts
16	Kiribati	17.5	-1.1 pts
17	Japan	17.4	+0.3 pts
18	Zimbabwe	17.3	+1.8 pts
19	Thailand	16.6	+1.1 pts
20	France	16.6	+0.3 pts
21	Hungary	16.5	-1.8 pts
22	Vanuatu	15.7	+0.4 pts
23	Croatia	15.7	+1 pts
24	United States	15.6	+0.7 pts
25	Belarus	15.6	-0.7 pts
26	Latvia	15.2	-2.8 pts
27	Serbia	15.1	-0.5 pts
28	Estonia	14.9	-2.6 pts
29	Cape Verde	14.9	+1.2 pts
30	Sri Lanka	14.7	+2.3 pts
31	Kazakhstan	14.6	-2.4 pts
32	Finland	14.6	+0.4 pts
33	Austria	14.5	+0.5 pts
34	Moldova	14.1	+2.5 pts
35	Switzerland	14	+0.3 pts
36	Sweden	13.8	+0.5 pts
37	Cuba	13.8	-0.8 pts
38	Poland	13.7	-0.2 pts
39	Trinidad and Tobago	13.3	-0.7 pts
40	Czechia	13.3	+0.6 pts
41	Eritrea	13.2	+0.4 pts
42	Norway	13.2	+0.7 pts
43	Australia	13.1	0 pts
44	Germany	12.9	0 pts
45	India	12.6	-0.5 pts
46	Samoa	12	0 pts
47	New Zealand	11.9	+0.6 pts
48	Iceland	11.9	-1 pts
49	Portugal	11.5	-0.6 pts
50	Netherlands	11.5	+0.4 pts
51	Montenegro	11.3	-3.9 pts
52	Mozambique	10.6	-0.2 pts
53	Mauritius	10.5	-0.9 pts
54	Denmark	10.5	-0.4 pts
55	Nepal	10.1	+0.3 pts
56	Slovakia	9.9	+0.5 pts
57	Romania	9.6	-0.1 pts
58	United Kingdom	9.5	+0.6 pts
59	Bulgaria	9.5	-0.5 pts
60	Canada	9.4	-2.2 pts
61	Togo	9.3	-0 pts
62	North Korea	9.3	0 pts
63	Central African Republic	9.2	-0.5 pts
64	Bosnia and Herzegovina	9	-0.8 pts
65	China	8.9	+0.1 pts
66	Democratic Republic of the Congo	8.8	+0.6 pts
67	Spain	8.7	+0.1 pts
68	Rwanda	8.7	+0.8 pts
69	Venezuela	8.6	+1.3 pts
70	Namibia	8.6	+0.2 pts
71	Ireland	8.5	-0.1 pts
72	Burkina Faso	8.5	+0.2 pts
73	Cameroon	8.5	+0.6 pts
74	Botswana	8.4	-0.6 pts
75	Uzbekistan	8.3	-0.2 pts
76	Fiji	8.3	-1.1 pts
77	Luxembourg	8.2	-1.5 pts
78	Angola	8.1	+0.7 pts
79	Singapore	8.1	-0.8 pts
80	Costa Rica	8.1	+1.7 pts
81	Djibouti	8	+0.1 pts
82	Somalia	8	-0.1 pts
83	Argentina	7.9	-0.2 pts
84	South Sudan	7.9	+0.3 pts
85	Haiti	7.8	-0.1 pts
86	Chile	7.7	-0.6 pts
87	Guinea-Bissau	7.7	-0.1 pts
88	Burundi	7.7	+1 pts
89	El Salvador	7.6	+0.2 pts
90	Brazil	7.6	+0.7 pts
91	Malawi	7.6	+0.5 pts
92	Ecuador	7.6	-0 pts
93	Côte d’Ivoire	7.4	+0.1 pts
94	Vietnam	7.3	+0.5 pts
95	Gabon	7.3	-0.1 pts
96	Zambia	7.1	+1.1 pts
97	Benin	7.1	+0.2 pts
98	Equatorial Guinea	7	-0.4 pts
99	Italy	7	+0.2 pts
100	Mexico	7	+0.6 pts
101	Turkmenistan	6.8	+0.3 pts
102	Kyrgyzstan	6.8	-0.1 pts
103	Senegal	6.8	-0.1 pts
104	Republic of the Congo	6.7	+0.2 pts
105	Malta	6.5	+0.8 pts
106	Paraguay	6.4	+0.1 pts
107	Sierra Leone	6.1	+0.7 pts
108	Madagascar	6.1	-0.2 pts
109	Ethiopia	6.1	+0.4 pts
110	Comoros	6	-0.2 pts
111	Liberia	6	+0.1 pts
112	North Macedonia	5.8	+0.6 pts
113	Malaysia	5.7	+1.4 pts
114	Pakistan	5.6	+0.2 pts
115	Uganda	5.5	+0.6 pts
116	Puerto Rico	5.4	-0.5 pts
117	Ghana	5.3	+0.2 pts
118	Saint Lucia	5.3	-2.1 pts
119	Chad	5.2	-0 pts
120	Tanzania	5.1	+0.7 pts
121	Georgia	5.1	-0.6 pts
122	Libya	5	0 pts
123	Nigeria	5	+0.4 pts
124	Colombia	5	+0.1 pts
125	Guatemala	4.9	-0.1 pts
126	Bhutan	4.9	-0.2 pts
127	Guinea	4.8	-0.2 pts
128	Gambia	4.8	-0.1 pts
129	Tonga	4.7	+0.1 pts
130	Qatar	4.7	-0.6 pts
131	Greece	4.7	+0.3 pts
132	Bahrain	4.7	-0.8 pts
133	Kenya	4.6	-1 pts
134	Laos	4.6	+0.6 pts
135	Cambodia	4.5	+0.2 pts
136	Niger	4.5	+0.1 pts
137	Israel	4.4	-0.7 pts
138	Seychelles	4.3	-2.3 pts
139	Nicaragua	4.2	+0.6 pts
140	Yemen	4.2	+0.3 pts
141	Dominican Republic	4.2	0 pts
142	Bolivia	4.2	-0.6 pts
143	Belize	4.2	+0.5 pts
144	Mali	4.2	+0.1 pts
145	Iran	4.1	+0.7 pts
146	Afghanistan	3.6	+0.1 pts
147	Timor-Leste	3.6	+0.4 pts
148	Barbados	3.5	-0.6 pts
149	Philippines	3.5	+0.3 pts
150	Panama	3.3	+0.8 pts
151	Bahamas	3.3	+0.1 pts
152	Sudan	3.2	+0.1 pts
153	Brunei	3	+0.1 pts
154	Cyprus	3	-0.8 pts
155	Iraq	3	+0.1 pts
156	Honduras	3	+0.1 pts
157	Morocco	2.9	0 pts
158	Myanmar	2.9	0 pts
159	Bangladesh	2.8	0 pts
160	Albania	2.8	-0.6 pts
161	Mauritania	2.7	0 pts
162	Türkiye	2.7	-0.3 pts
163	Armenia	2.5	+0.3 pts
164	Tajikistan	2.4	+0.2 pts
165	Kuwait	2.3	+0.1 pts
166	Algeria	2.2	+0.5 pts
167	Tunisia	1.8	-0.1 pts
168	Papua New Guinea	1.8	+0.1 pts
169	United Arab Emirates	1.7	-0.7 pts
170	Jamaica	1.7	+0.1 pts
171	Azerbaijan	1.6	-1.7 pts
172	Peru	1.5	0 pts
173	Maldives	1.5	-0.5 pts
174	Antigua and Barbuda	1.5	+0.7 pts
175	Grenada	1.3	+0.2 pts
176	Indonesia	1.2	-0.2 pts
177	Saudi Arabia	0.9	-0.1 pts
178	Oman	0.9	-0.3 pts
179	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.9	0 pts
180	Lebanon	0.7	-0.1 pts
181	Palestine	0.7	0 pts
182	Egypt	0.6	-0.2 pts
183	Jordan	0.6	-0.1 pts
184	Syria	0.6	0 pts
185	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.4	+0.1 pts

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About this ranking

Suicide deaths in the year per 100,000 population, both sexes and all ages (SDG indicator 3.4.2). Crude rate, not age-standardized. WHO Global Health Estimates.

WHO adjusts registered deaths for under-reporting and models countries without reliable death registration, so values differ from national counts of registered suicides. Values are served with every decimal WHO publishes. WHO revises these series, past years included, when new national reports or estimates come in, so values can change between retrievals.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

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World Health Organization, data.who.int. Suicide mortality rate (per 100 000 population), both sexes, all ages (SDGSUICIDE) [Indicator]. https://data.who.int/indicators/i/F08B4FD/16BBF41 (Accessed on 2026-10-12). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. No changes made to source values. WHO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.

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Which country has the highest suicide mortality rate?

Lesotho, with 28.7 per 100,000 people in 2021, according to World Health Organization.

Which country has the lowest suicide mortality rate?

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, with 0.4 per 100,000 people in 2021.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: World Health Organization, Suicide mortality rate (per 100 000 population), both sexes, all ages (SDGSUICIDE). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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