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

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/).

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Lesotho 30.10 2019
2 South Africa 9.80 2019
3 Zimbabwe 8.80 2019
4 Botswana 6.40 2019
4 Djibouti 6.40 2019
6 Equatorial Guinea 6.00 2019
7 Mozambique 5.70 2019
8 Eritrea 5.20 2019
8 Central African Republic 5.20 2019
10 Sierra Leone 5.10 2019
11 Guinea 4.90 2019
12 Morocco 4.70 2019
12 Eswatini 4.70 2019
14 Cabo Verde 4.50 2019
15 Cameroon 4.40 2019
16 Togo 3.90 2019
16 Guinea-Bissau 3.90 2019
18 Somalia 3.80 2019
18 Benin 3.80 2019
18 Comoros 3.80 2019
21 Burkina Faso 3.70 2019
22 Congo 3.50 2019
23 Burundi 3.40 2019
23 Madagascar 3.40 2019
25 Liberia 3.30 2019
25 Niger 3.30 2019
25 Chad 3.30 2019
28 Namibia 3.20 2019
28 Kenya 3.20 2019
30 Ethiopia 3.10 2019
31 The Gambia 3.00 2019
31 Rwanda 3.00 2019
31 Senegal 3.00 2019
34 Libya 2.90 2019
34 Mali 2.90 2019
36 Mauritius 2.80 2019
36 Dem. Rep. Congo 2.80 2019
36 Côte d'Ivoire 2.80 2019
36 Sudan 2.80 2019
40 Zambia 2.70 2019
41 Gabon 2.40 2019
42 Angola 2.30 2019
43 Mauritania 2.20 2019
44 Egypt 2.00 2019
44 Tanzania 2.00 2019
46 Tunisia 1.90 2019
46 Nigeria 1.90 2019
48 Algeria 1.80 2019
49 Malawi 1.70 2019
49 Uganda 1.70 2019
51 Seychelles 1.40 2019
52 Ghana 1.20 2019
53 São Tomé and Principe 0.80 2019

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Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual