WHO Global Mental Health Problems More than 1 Billion People…It's hard to achieve the suicide rate reduction goal
Sep 02, 2025
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According to the WHO, out of 68 million deaths worldwide as of 2021, 727,043 cases died on their own, accounting for 1.1% of the total. The suicide rate per 100,000 people was 8.9. Suicide is one of the leading causes of death among young people, ranking second among the causes of death for women aged 15 to 29 and third for men in 2021.
Despite global efforts, the WHO believes that the progress in reducing suicide mortality is too slow to meet the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to reduce suicide rates by a third compared to 2015 by 2030. At the current pace, the decline rate in 2030 is expected to be only 12%.
Meanwhile, according to Statistics Korea, the suicide rate per 100,000 people in South Korea was 26.0 as of 2021. Out of the total number of deaths (317,000), suicide accounted for 4.5%, or 13,352.
As of 2023, two years later, the suicide rate per 100,000 people in Korea is 27.3. As of 2023, the number of suicide deaths was 13,978, an increase of 1,072 from the previous year. Korea's suicide rate is the highest among comparable countries and is twice as high as the OECD average.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
