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

The value for Suicide mortality rate, male (per 100,000 male population) in South Africa was 37.60 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 40.90 in 2009 and a minimum value of 34.10 in 2011.

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 35.50
2001 36.20
2002 37.60
2003 38.50
2004 37.70
2005 37.50
2006 36.60
2007 38.00
2008 40.90
2009 40.90
2010 37.30
2011 34.10
2012 36.00
2013 38.10
2014 38.70
2015 39.50
2016 39.20
2017 40.80
2018 39.00
2019 37.60

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality