List of countries by suicide rate

The following are lists of countries by estimated suicide rates as published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other sources.

[note 1] In many countries, suicide rates are underreported due to social stigma, cultural or legal concerns.

Suicide is, therefore, often a secretive act surrounded by taboo and may be unrecognized, misclassified, or deliberately hidden in official records of death.

Groups subject to discrimination, including refugees, indigenous populations, and LGBT people, experience high suicide rates.

[16][a] Though age-standardization is common statistical process to categorize mortality data for comparing purposes, this approach by WHO is based on estimates which take into account issues such as under-reporting, resulting in rates differing from the official national statistics prepared and endorsed by individual countries.

Canada, a country with a comparatively low suicide rate overall at 10.3 incidents per 100,000 people in 2016, exhibits one such discrepancy.

There are numerous differences in living standards and income that contribute to this phenomenon, classed as an epidemic in Canada.