Suicide Rate by country
Suicides per 100,000 population per year.
Global trend
Mean stress score across all countries for which data is available, over the last 12 months.
Where the pressure is concentrated
The five most-affected and five least-affected countries on this indicator right now.
Most affected
- 1South Korea27.5 per 100K90
- 2South Africa22.3 per 100K69
- 3Japan17.4 per 100K50
- 4France16.6 per 100K46
- 5United States15.6 per 100K43
Full ranking
All 25 tracked countries, ordered from most to least affected. Click any country to see its full composite breakdown.
| # | Country | Raw value | Stress score | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Korea | 27.5 per 100K | 90.1 | 2021-12-31 |
| 2 | South Africa | 22.3 per 100K | 69.2 | 2021-12-31 |
| 3 | Japan | 17.4 per 100K | 49.7 | 2021-12-31 |
| 4 | France | 16.6 per 100K | 46.3 | 2021-12-31 |
| 5 | United States | 15.6 per 100K | 42.5 | 2021-12-31 |
| 6 | Switzerland | 14.0 per 100K | 36.1 | 2021-12-31 |
| 7 | Sweden | 13.8 per 100K | 35.4 | 2021-12-31 |
| 8 | Poland | 13.7 per 100K | 34.7 | 2021-12-31 |
| 9 | Norway | 13.2 per 100K | 32.8 | 2021-12-31 |
| 10 | Australia | 13.1 per 100K | 32.3 | 2021-12-31 |
| 11 | Germany | 12.9 per 100K | 31.6 | 2021-12-31 |
| 12 | India | 12.6 per 100K | 30.2 | 2021-12-31 |
| 13 | New Zealand | 11.9 per 100K | 27.7 | 2021-12-31 |
| 14 | Netherlands | 11.5 per 100K | 26.0 | 2021-12-31 |
| 15 | United Kingdom | 9.55 per 100K | 18.2 | 2021-12-31 |
| 16 | Canada | 9.44 per 100K | 17.8 | 2021-12-31 |
| 17 | Spain | 8.72 per 100K | 14.9 | 2021-12-31 |
| 18 | Singapore | 8.10 per 100K | 12.4 | 2021-12-31 |
| 19 | Argentina | 7.94 per 100K | 11.8 | 2021-12-31 |
| 20 | Brazil | 7.59 per 100K | 10.4 | 2021-12-31 |
| 21 | Italy | 6.99 per 100K | 8.0 | 2021-12-31 |
| 22 | Mexico | 6.95 per 100K | 7.8 | 2021-12-31 |
| 23 | UAE | 1.71 per 100K | 0.0 | 2021-12-31 |
| 24 | Israel | 4.37 per 100K | 0.0 | 2021-12-31 |
| 25 | Turkey | 2.69 per 100K | 0.0 | 2021-12-31 |
Why it matters
Suicide Rate is a contributing indicator to the Mental meta-index, one of the five dimensions of The Human Index composite. Higher raw value = more stress.
Movements in this indicator are tracked daily and feed into every country's composite score on the next cron cycle.
Source & methodology
Raw values are normalized to a 0–100 stress scale per the bounds documented in the codebase. See methodology for the full normalization and band-threshold derivation.