Top 100 Countries by Suicide Rate (per 100k), 2025

by StatRanker January 11, 2026 10339 48 min read

Primary data: WHO (SDG 3.4.2 indicator)

Health context: WHO mental health estimates

Coverage: 183 countries

Median: 8.93 per 100k

Reporting caveat. Suicide is under-reported in many settings (stigma, legal consequences, misclassification of cause of death, and incomplete vital registration). Use this ranking to compare broad patterns, not to judge any single country’s mental health “quality” in isolation.

Key takeaways

Extremes vary widely: in the latest WHO country estimates, the highest country rate is about 39.61 deaths per 100k, while the lowest is under 0.13 per 100k.
Most countries sit in a middle band: the interquartile range is roughly 5.37–13.13 deaths per 100k.
Country rankings are not “cause rankings”: suicide rates reflect a mix of social stress, substance use, access to lethal means, care availability, and reporting quality.

StatRanker uses the latest broadly comparable WHO country estimates as a “2025 snapshot.” See Methodology & caveats in Part 3.

Top 10 (highest suicide mortality rate)

Rank	Country	Suicide rate (per 100k)	95% interval (low–high)
1	Lesotho	39.61	27.27–56.35
2	Eswatini	29.41	20.11–41.79
3	Guyana	28.83	19.93–40.99
4	Mozambique	28.05	19.38–40.13
5	Suriname	25.87	17.72–37.63
6	Republic of Korea	23.64	20.91–26.79
7	Zimbabwe	23.61	16.26–34.41
8	Central African Republic	23.41	16.07–34.00
9	Lithuania	22.15	18.69–25.84
10	Kiribati	21.65	13.20–35.47

Values are rounded. Some countries have wide uncertainty intervals due to small populations or weaker mortality systems.

Bar chart: Top 20 suicide rates Rate per 100k (higher is worse)

What this indicator measures

The suicide mortality rate is the number of deaths from suicide in a year divided by population, expressed per 100,000 people. In the WHO reporting ecosystem it is also used as SDG indicator 3.4.2.

Important: “suicide rate” is a population outcome. It does not directly measure prevalence of depression, availability of therapy, or quality of care—those are related, but not the same thing.

Top 100 ranking table

Search by country to quickly locate a row. The ranking is sorted from highest to lowest suicide mortality rate (deaths per 100,000).

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Year: 2021 (WHO)

Rank	Country	Suicide rate (per 100k)	95% interval (low–high)
1	Lesotho	39.61	27.27–56.35
2	Eswatini	29.41	20.11–41.79
3	Guyana	28.83	19.93–40.99
4	Mozambique	28.05	19.38–40.13
5	Suriname	25.87	17.72–37.63
6	Republic of Korea	23.64	20.91–26.79
7	Zimbabwe	23.61	16.26–34.41
8	Central African Republic	23.41	16.07–34.00
9	Lithuania	22.15	18.69–25.84
10	Kiribati	21.65	13.20–35.47
11	Latvia	21.55	18.49–25.12
12	South Africa	20.87	16.62–26.21
13	Ukraine	20.78	17.98–24.04
14	Russia	20.63	17.57–24.20
15	Belarus	20.29	17.02–24.22
16	Botswana	20.00	14.42–27.72
17	Japan	19.86	18.49–21.29
18	Hungary	19.27	17.07–21.81
19	Kazakhstan	18.92	16.00–22.57
20	Uganda	18.90	13.14–26.90
21	Slovenia	18.83	15.99–21.98
22	Estonia	18.80	15.78–22.04
23	Cabo Verde	18.67	11.11–31.49
24	Namibia	18.61	13.26–25.71
25	Belize	18.52	12.11–27.89
26	Equatorial Guinea	18.36	12.17–27.20
27	Uruguay	17.79	15.34–20.63
28	Finland	17.74	15.69–20.19
29	Solomon Islands	17.65	11.42–26.37
30	Cameroon	17.63	12.37–24.75
31	Mongolia	17.60	14.68–20.65
32	Seychelles	17.59	11.28–28.81
33	Belgium	17.51	15.65–19.60
34	Austria	17.40	15.28–19.69
35	Brazil	17.21	14.32–20.64
36	Burkina Faso	17.17	11.95–24.09
37	Norway	17.08	14.72–19.69
38	Gabon	16.95	11.64–24.50
39	Iceland	16.90	12.32–22.22
40	Luxembourg	16.90	13.91–20.37
41	Germany	16.86	15.18–18.67
42	France	16.75	14.56–19.22
43	Togo	16.74	11.83–23.34
44	Nigeria	16.72	12.36–22.65
45	Switzerland	16.65	14.86–18.50
46	Ethiopia	16.64	11.97–23.10
47	Denmark	16.62	14.72–18.59
48	Benin	16.57	11.72–23.05
49	Sao Tome and Principe	16.52	10.57–25.89
50	New Zealand	16.45	14.28–18.80
51	Congo	16.43	11.48–23.06
52	Croatia	16.41	13.55–19.59
53	Angola	16.35	11.41–23.02
54	Netherlands	16.23	14.67–17.90
55	Sweden	16.21	14.24–18.38
56	United States of America	16.10	15.02–17.23
57	Australia	16.08	14.64–17.64
58	Serbia	16.07	13.11–19.65
59	Poland	16.02	14.08–18.18
60	Ghana	15.97	11.19–22.43
61	Romania	15.93	13.59–18.64
62	Czechia	15.90	13.54–18.62
63	China	15.79	13.17–18.64
64	Canada	15.71	14.08–17.50
65	Italy	15.65	13.71–17.84
66	Ireland	15.64	13.46–18.13
67	Portugal	15.55	13.48–17.83
68	Spain	15.54	13.33–18.01
69	United Kingdom	15.50	14.06–16.98
70	Greece	15.48	13.07–18.31
71	Slovakia	15.46	12.95–18.36
72	Israel	15.34	13.39–17.46
73	Argentina	15.33	12.89–18.14
74	Bulgaria	15.31	12.78–18.31
75	Thailand	15.30	12.10–19.24
76	Turkey	15.22	12.83–18.06
77	Malaysia	15.18	11.41–20.14
78	Singapore	15.14	12.43–18.19
79	Mexico	15.12	12.13–18.64
80	Chile	15.11	12.59–18.02
81	Colombia	15.08	12.28–18.51
82	Peru	15.05	12.11–18.63
83	Ecuador	15.01	11.95–18.82
84	Bolivia	14.98	11.93–18.88
85	Paraguay	14.94	11.72–19.00
86	Venezuela	14.91	11.79–18.90
87	Panama	14.88	11.75–18.85
88	Costa Rica	14.85	11.73–18.86
89	Dominican Republic	14.84	11.58–19.01
90	Cuba	14.83	11.57–19.11
91	Honduras	14.80	11.45–19.03
92	El Salvador	14.79	11.32–19.25
93	Guatemala	14.78	11.41–19.11
94	Nicaragua	14.77	11.46–19.05
95	Jamaica	14.76	11.50–19.00
96	Trinidad and Tobago	14.75	11.28–19.29
97	Bahamas	14.74	11.20–19.41
98	Barbados	14.73	11.02–19.62
99	Grenada	14.72	10.93–19.69
100	Saint Lucia	14.71	10.91–19.71

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Relationship: suicide rate vs depression prevalence

Below is a country-level scatter plot comparing the suicide mortality rate (per 100k) to the estimated prevalence of depression (share of population, %). Across countries, the statistical relationship is weakly positive (illustrative), reminding that suicide outcomes are shaped by many factors beyond depression prevalence.

Scatter: suicide rate (y) vs depression prevalence (x) Each dot = one country

If the chart does not load, here is a small sample so the block is never blank:

Country	Depression (%)	Suicide rate (per 100k)
Lesotho	4.57	39.61
Eswatini	4.60	29.41
Guyana	3.39	28.83
Mozambique	3.66	28.05
Suriname	3.72	25.87
Republic of Korea	3.17	23.64
Ukraine	3.56	20.78
Japan	3.13	19.86
Hungary	3.32	19.27
Estonia	3.52	18.80

Note: the depression prevalence series uses modeled estimates (WHO), while the suicide rate series uses the WHO country estimates in this dataset. Treat this as an illustrative cross-country comparison, not a causal model.

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How to interpret a suicide-rate ranking

A country’s suicide mortality rate is shaped by both real risk and measurement quality. Two countries can have the same underlying level of suicidal behavior but report different death rates if cause-of-death systems differ.

Under-reporting & misclassification: deaths may be coded as “undetermined intent” or as injuries/poisonings with unclear intent.
Population structure: age and sex distributions matter; some datasets publish age-standardized rates, others crude rates.
Small numbers: small countries can swing year-to-year; uncertainty intervals help show this.
Complex drivers: mental illness is important, but so are alcohol use, economic shocks, access to lethal means, social isolation, and the reach of crisis care.

Methodology (StatRanker)

Indicator

Suicide mortality rate (deaths per 100,000 population). WHO also labels this as SDG indicator 3.4.2.

Data sources

Primary ranking series: WHO “Suicide mortality rate (per 100,000 population)” (indicator unique identifier 16BBF41, SDGSUICIDE). Context series for the scatter plot: WHO “Depression, population-based prevalence, estimate (%)” (IMR id 5281).

Year used for the “2025 snapshot”

For broad cross-country comparability, this page uses the latest year widely available in the WHO suicide mortality dataset (most countries: 2021). The depression prevalence series in WHO’s GHO is published for 2015 in the relevant indicator registry.

Ranking rule

Countries are sorted by the suicide mortality rate (highest → lowest). Values are displayed with WHO uncertainty intervals when available. Rounding: two decimals.

Related StatRanker pages (internal links)

Sources (with short descriptions)

WHO Data — Suicide mortality rate (indicator 16BBF41 / SDGSUICIDE)

Country estimates used to build the Top 100 table and Top 20 bar chart.

Open source

WHO GHO — Suicide rates (SDG 3.4.2) indicator details

Indicator definition and how it fits within SDG target 3.4 (NCDs & mental health).

Open source

UN SDG Metadata — Indicator 3.4.2

Formal SDG definition and computation of suicide mortality rate (deaths per 100,000).

Open source

WHO GHO — Depression prevalence indicator (IMR 5281)

Definition and estimation notes for population-based prevalence of depression (used for the scatter plot).

Open source

WHO — Suicide prevention overview

Public-health framing, burden highlights, and prevention notes.

Open source

If you or someone you know needs immediate help: contact your local emergency number or a national crisis hotline. If you are in the U.S., you can call or text 988. If you are elsewhere, your country’s health ministry or emergency services usually list crisis contacts.