South Africa - Suicide mortality rate, female (per 100,000 female population)

The value for Suicide mortality rate, female (per 100,000 female population) in South Africa was 9.80 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 13.00 in 2009 and a minimum value of 9.70 in 2000.

Definition: Suicide mortality rate is the number of suicide deaths in a year per 100,000 population. Crude suicide rate (not age-adjusted).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 9.70
2001 10.20
2002 11.30
2003 12.10
2004 11.90
2005 11.50
2006 10.90
2007 11.50
2008 12.90
2009 13.00
2010 12.30
2011 11.00
2012 10.10
2013 9.70
2014 9.80
2015 9.90
2016 10.10
2017 10.00
2018 9.70
2019 9.80

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality