| Year | Deaths | Person-years | Combined | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 0 | 149,044 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2001 | 0 | 148,520 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2002 | 2 | 147,619 | 1.35 | 1.43 | 1.29 |
| 2003 | 0 | 146,312 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2004 | 0 | 144,625 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2005 | 1 | 142,679 | 0.70 | 0.00 | 1.32 |
| 2006 | 0 | 141,208 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2007 | 2 | 140,300 | 1.43 | 1.55 | 1.32 |
| 2008 | 0 | 139,142 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2009 | 0 | 137,626 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2010 | 0 | 135,984 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2011 | 1 | 134,487 | 0.74 | 0.00 | 1.36 |
| 2012 | 0 | 133,323 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2013 | 0 | 132,538 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2014 | 0 | 132,552 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2015 | 0 | 133,965 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2016 | 1 | 135,672 | 0.74 | 1.63 | 0.00 |
| 2017 | 0 | 136,517 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2018 | 0 | 136,817 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2019 | 0 | 136,881 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2020 | 0 | 136,903 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2021 | 0 | 136,975 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Official reports have counted <15 suicides in 22 years for the pediatric age group. Taken over the whole of the years available, the rate of suicide 0–19 is 0.23 per 100,000 person years. However, the number of suicides is too low to rely upon and a single suicide missed or added incorrectly would change things dramatically. For this reason, this country has been editorially excluded from the international comparison, but this page is included for transparency.
The rate being shown has me suspicious that the rate is unreliable, being outside the realistic bounds of larger countries.
WHO grades the Maldives’s cause-of-death data “low”. For the Global Health Estimates, WHO rates a country’s vital registration on how complete it is and what share of deaths carry a usable cause code, then sorts the result into high, medium, low and very low. Registration here is 93% complete for ages 15 and over. A death that was never registered, or registered to a cause nobody can use, is not in the figures on this page, so read them as a floor rather than as a count.
If you have any more information about the Maldives or would like to contact the editor, please email dr.tylerblack@gmail.com.
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