Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (GBD 2021) Suicide Mortality and Incidence 1990-2021

The Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (GBD 2021), coordinated by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), estimated the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors for 204 countries and territories and selected subnational locations.

This dataset includes estimates of the mean age of death, the fraction of suicide attempts (incident cases) to the number of deaths due to suicides, the ratio of incident cases to deaths, the number and percentage of suicide deaths that occurred from firearms, for males and females, globally and for each GBD region in 2021. The results also include a comparison of age-standardised mortality rate per 100,000 due to suicide by sex and region in 1990, 2019, and 2021. A variety of data were gathered to inform these estimates, including vital registration data, verbal autopsy data, and mortality surveillance data that included 23,782 study-location-years of data from GBD 2021.