Suicide statistics for Zimbabwe
Age-standardised rate per 100,000 people, 2021, as published by the World Health Organization.
All
25.4
per 100,000 · WHO range 13.6–40.8
Men
38.2
per 100,000 · WHO range 22.6–60.3
Women
15.8
per 100,000 · WHO range 6.9–26.4
The median across all 184 countries WHO publishes is 8.3. Zimbabwe 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 Zimbabwe, 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 Zimbabwe
We do not yet have a verified crisis line for Zimbabwe. The page below carries the general emergency number and international options.
Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory, indicator MH_12. Retrieved 4 August 2026.