Top 100 Countries by Suicide Mortality Rate, 2026

Overview: what the ranking measures

Suicide mortality rate is the number of suicide deaths in a calendar year per 100,000 population. World Bank metadata identifies SH.STA.SUIC.P5 as a crude suicide mortality rate rather than an age-standardized measure.

The rate is calculated as suicide deaths during the year divided by the mid-year population for the same calendar year, multiplied by 100,000. The estimates are derived from WHO Global Health Estimates.

For countries with high-quality cause-of-death registration, WHO uses vital-registration data and applies adjustments where necessary. Where high-quality registration is unavailable, WHO uses additional evidence and estimation methods. As a result, the figures are internationally standardized WHO estimates and may differ from separately published national statistics.

Top 10 countries by crude suicide mortality rate

The first ten countries range from 28.7 deaths per 100,000 population in Lesotho to 21.2 in Ukraine. Values are ranked from highest to lowest. Equal displayed values are ordered alphabetically for a stable table sequence.

Top 10 countries by WHO 2021 crude suicide mortality estimate

Unit: deaths per 100,000 population. All rows are official_value entries from the same 2021 WDI series.

Methodology

The ranking uses World Bank World Development Indicators series SH.STA.SUIC.P5, “Suicide mortality rate (per 100,000 population).” The World Bank identifies the World Health Organization Global Health Observatory as the original source. The target year is 2021.

The World Bank metadata identifies the indicator as a crude rate, not an age-adjusted rate. Crude and age-standardized suicide mortality measures should therefore not be mixed in the same ranking.

Differences in death-registration completeness, cause-of-death certification, coding and underlying estimation inputs can affect comparability. WHO standardization improves consistency across countries but does not remove all uncertainty, particularly for countries with similar estimated rates.

This metric does not measure absolute suicide deaths, suicide attempts, self-harm prevalence, age-standardized mortality, sex-specific mortality, mental-health system performance or the causes of suicide.

Full ranking: Top 100 countries by crude suicide mortality rate

The table contains the 100 highest confirmed country values in the selected 2021 World Bank WDI series. Search, filters and sorting change the visible presentation while the published rank remains attached to each source value.

Top 100 countries by WHO 2021 crude suicide mortality estimate

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators SH.STA.SUIC.P5; original source: World Health Organization Global Health Observatory; target year: 2021.

Insights from the Top 100

What this ranking means

A higher rank indicates a higher WHO-estimated crude suicide mortality rate in the selected 2021 World Bank series. The table standardizes the denominator at 100,000 population but does not explain why countries differ.

An official_value entry means that the value is officially published through the selected WHO-sourced World Bank indicator. It does not mean every figure is an unadjusted national vital-registration count. WHO may apply adjustments or estimation where required.

Comparisons between countries with nearly identical values should be treated cautiously because mortality registration, cause-of-death coding and the amount of estimation required differ across statistical systems.

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