Quiet Miracles✓✓ 2 independent sources
The World Is Quietly Getting Better at Preventing Suicide
Global suicide rate −40% (14.9 → 9.0 per 100k, 1990–2021)
The GBD 2021 analysis in The Lancet Public Health finds the global age-standardized suicide mortality rate declined steadily from 14.9 per 100,000 in 1990 to 9.0 in 2021, while Our World in Data shows rates falling substantially across most countries since 1990. Drivers include pesticide-access limits, means restriction, and expanding mental-health care. A rare case where one of the world's most alarming statistics is moving decisively in the right direction.
−40%: the global age-standardized suicide death rate fell from 14.9 to 9.0 per 100,000 between 1990 and 2021 — one of the biggest public-health wins on record, and almost nobody reported it.