Suicide statistics for New Zealand
Age-standardised rate per 100,000 people, 2021, as published by the World Health Organization.
All
11.1
per 100,000 · WHO range 9.8–12.5
Men
16.5
per 100,000 · WHO range 14.5–18.6
Women
5.8
per 100,000 · WHO range 5.2–6.6
The median across all 184 countries WHO publishes is 8.3. New Zealand is above that median — which is a fact about death registration and population health, and not a judgement about the country or the people in it.
What this number is not
It is an estimate with a published range, not a count. It depends heavily on how deaths are investigated and recorded in New Zealand, which differs between countries far more than most readers expect. And it describes a whole population over a year — it says nothing about any individual, including you.
Help in New Zealand
We list crisis services for New Zealand, each checked against the provider's own page.
Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory, indicator MH_12. Retrieved 4 August 2026.