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

The value for Suicide mortality rate (per 100,000 population) in South Africa was 23.50 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 26.70 in 2009 and a minimum value of 22.40 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 22.40
2001 23.00
2002 24.30
2003 25.10
2004 24.60
2005 24.40
2006 23.60
2007 24.60
2008 26.70
2009 26.70
2010 24.60
2011 22.40
2012 22.90
2013 23.70
2014 24.10
2015 24.50
2016 24.40
2017 25.20
2018 24.10
2019 23.50

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality