![The following are lists of countries by suicide rate as published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other sources.[note 1] About one](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Map_of_countries_by_suicide_rate%2C_WHO_%282019%29.svg/1200px-Map_of_countries_by_suicide_rate%2C_WHO_%282019%29.svg.png "List of countries by suicide rate")
List of countries by suicide rate
The following are lists of countries by suicide rate as published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other sources.[note 1]
About one person in 5,000–15,000 dies by suicide every year, with an estimated global rate of 10.5 per 100,000 population[3] down from 11.6 in 2008.[4] In high-income modernised countries male and female rates of suicidal behaviors differ much compared to those in the rest of the world: while women are reportedly more prone to suicidal thoughts, rates of suicide are higher among men (suicide in men has been described as a "silent epidemic").[5][6][7][8][9] The most suicidal state in the entire world is by a wide margin Greenland,[10] with Lithuania being the most suicidal country in 2019. Europe is the most suicidal region in the world, while the Eastern Mediterranean is the least.[11][12]
According to a recent study, the absolute number of suicide deaths increased by 6.7% from 762,000 to 817,000 annually between 1990 and 2016, while age-standardized suicide rates fell by a third. Worldwide, the rates in 2016 were about 16 deaths per 100,000 men and 7 deaths per 100,000 women: women also experienced a greater decrease compared with men over the study period.[13][14]
