Deaths per 100k population · annual 2000–{{year}} · WHO / World Bank · {{count}} countries
Suicide rate — deaths per 100,000 population — a continuous annual series from 2000 to 2021. A ratio, not addable.
World Bank, World Development Indicators (SH.STA.SUIC.P5); primary source: the World Health Organization. The WHO is preferred over raw national statistics because suicide is very unevenly reported from country to country (legal classification, religious stigma, quality of civil registration) — the WHO publishes adjusted estimates, explicitly designed to be comparable across countries.
Time slider. An even distribution, without an extreme tail: regular steps across the whole range, no logarithmic scale.
Lesotho (28.7 per 100,000) shows the world's highest rate, well above the global median of 7.6 — a level that overlaps with extreme poverty and one of the planet's highest HIV prevalences (see the separate indicator), two risk factors documented by the WHO.