20 Countries With the Highest Suicide Rates

Suicide is a tragedy that affects people of all ages, genders, and backgrounds. Although suicide rates vary across countries around the world, there are certain places where this phenomenon occurs at higher rates than others. Here are 20 countries with some of the highest suicide rates in the world, according to World Population Review.

Lesotho

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Suicide rate: 72.4 per 100,000 population
Population: 2,317,952

Guyana

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Suicide rate: 40.3 per 100,000 population
Population: 811,019

Eswatini

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Suicide rate: 29.4 per 100,000 population
Population: 1,206,121

South Korea

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Suicide rate: 28.6 per 100,000 population
Population: 51,801,721

Kiribati

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Suicide rate: 28.3 per 100,000 population
Population: 132,435

Federated States of Micronesia

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Suicide rate: 28.2 per 100,000 population
Population: 114,713

Lithuania

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Suicide rate:26.1 per 100,000 population
Population: 2,730,825

Suriname

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Suicide rate: 25.4 per 100,000 population
Population: 620,566

Russia

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Suicide rate: 25.1 per 100,000 population
Population: 144,682,320

South Africa

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Suicide rate: 23.5 per 100,000 population
Population: 60,153,888

Ukraine

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Suicide rate:  per 100,000 population
Population: 36,122,178

Uruguay

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Suicide rate:  per 100,000 population
Population: 3,423,108

Belarus

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Suicide rate:  per 100,000 population
Population: 9,518,599

Montenegro

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Suicide rate:  per 100,000 population
Population: 626,485

Latvia

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Suicide rate:  per 100,000 population
Population: 1,838,937

Slovenia

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Suicide rate:  per 100,000 population
Population: 2,119,675

Belgium

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Suicide rate: 18.3 per 100,000 population
Population: 11,673,051

Vanuatu

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Suicide rate:  per 100,000 population
Population: 331,597

Mongolia

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Suicide rate:  per 100,000 population
Population: 3,425,342

Kazakhstan

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Suicide rate:  per 100,000 population
Population: 19,509,192

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