Israel: injury statistics

The World Health Organization’s estimates for Israel of deaths from road traffic crashes, suicide, homicide and unintentional poisoning: the latest year WHO has published, where each rate stands among countries, and the trend since 2000 where WHO gives one.

WHO region: Europe.

Road

Road traffic deaths

4.2per 100 000 population

WHO estimate, 2021.

Ranks 175th of 195 countries by rate.

Estimated deaths, 2021
375 (343–407)

Violence

Suicide rate

4.4per 100 000 population

WHO estimate, 2021, age-standardized. Range (3.7–5.1).

Ranks 139th of 185 countries by age-standardized rate.

Male
6.5 (5.6–7.5)
Female
2.3 (1.9–2.7)
In 2000
6.8
Crude rate, 2021
4.4 (3.7–5.1)
Age-standardized suicide rate, Israel, 2000 to 2021: 6.8 per 100 000 in 2000 and 4.4 per 100 000 in 2021; highest 6.8 in 2005, lowest 4.4 in 2021.

Violence

Homicide rate

1.0per 100 000 population

WHO estimate, 2021. Range (0.9–1.2).

Ranks 159th of 185 countries by rate.

Male
1.5 (1.3–1.8)
Female
0.6 (0.5–0.7)
In 2000
3.4
Estimated homicides, 2019
104 (83–128)
Homicide rate, Israel, 2000 to 2021: 3.4 per 100 000 in 2000 and 1.0 per 100 000 in 2021; highest 8.0 in 2002, lowest 1.0 in 2021.

Poison

Unintentional poisoning deaths

0.0per 100 000 population

WHO estimate, 2021. Range (0.0–0.0).

Ranks 182nd of 185 countries by rate.

Male
0.1 (0.0–0.1)
Female
0.0 (0.0–0.0)
In 2000
0.1
Unintentional poisoning deaths, Israel, 2000 to 2021: 0.1 per 100 000 in 2000 and 0.0 per 100 000 in 2021; highest 0.1 in 2000, lowest 0.0 in 2014.

How to read these figures

  • Each figure is WHO’s estimate, made with the same definitions for every country so that countries can be compared. It can differ from what Israel registers itself; the national figures we carry are on the injury facts pages for road & transport, violence & self-harm and poisoning & home hazards.
  • A range is WHO’s uncertainty interval: where WHO judges the true value is likely to lie.
  • A rank is the country’s position in WHO’s list for that year, from the highest rate. Countries whose rates print the same are listed alphabetically, so where many countries share a small rate a few places of rank mean nothing. Rates are deaths per 100 000 population; the suicide rate is age-standardized, so countries with older or younger populations can be compared.
  • The trend line runs from the earliest to the latest year WHO publishes, scaled to the country’s own highest and lowest values.

About these figures

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory (indicator codes shown). WHO web content and data are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO; figures are shown as WHO publishes them, with attribution. WHO copyright and licensing.

Read from WHO’s Global Health Observatory data service on 26 September 2026. The figures are WHO’s estimates; ranks are each country’s position in WHO’s list, highest rate first.