Suicide Prevention Day

South Korea and Lithuania had the highest rates of suicide among men in 2021 at 34.9 and 33.1 cases per 100,000 population, respectively.

For women, South Korea and Japan had the highest rates of the selected countries, with 15.2 and 10.2 cases per 100,000.

The  data on suicide prevalence in OECD shows that of every 100,000 men in the United States, an average of 23 died from suicide in 2021, while for women the average was close to six per 100,000.

For the world as a whole, Africa has the highest suicide rate, says the World Health Organization, at 11.2 people per 100,000 population in 2019, compared to the global average of 9 per 100,000 population that year.

Lesotho had particularly high rates at 87.5 per 100,000 population, followed by Eswatini at 40.5 per 100,000 population.

The WHO says that 77% of suicides occurred in low- and middle-income countries in 2019.