Global suicide rates fell 30 per cent since 1990 – but not in the US
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Global suicide rates fell 30 per cent since 1990 – but not in the US
While most countries have seen a steady decline in suicide rates, the United States has witnessed the opposite, with suicides jumping almost 30 per cent since 2000
By Grace Wade
17 September 2025
Suicide rates have significantly decreased worldwide over the past few decades. Yet some countries, including the United States, have rates rising along the opposite trend lines, putting the world behind track on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2030 goal to cut suicides by a third.
Between 1990 and 2021, the global suicide rate fell nearly 30 per cent, from around 10 deaths per 100,000 people to about seven deaths per 100,000 people, according to an analysis by Jiseung Kang at Korea University in South Korea and her colleagues. They collected data on suicide deaths from 102 countries using the WHO’s mortality database.