Suicide statistics for United Kingdom
Age-standardised rate per 100,000 people, 2021, as published by the World Health Organization.
All
8.8
per 100,000 · WHO range 8.3–9
Men
13.5
per 100,000 · WHO range 12.8–14
Women
4.1
per 100,000 · WHO range 3.9–4.2
The median across all 184 countries WHO publishes is 8.3. United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom, 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 United Kingdom
We list crisis services for United Kingdom, each checked against the provider's own page.
Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory, indicator MH_12. Retrieved 4 August 2026.