Afghanistan - Intentional self-harm

By 2012, suicides in Afghanistan increased by 33 people to at 1,518 suicides In 2012, on average 4 Afghans committed suicide every day.

In Afghanistan there were 5.87 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, much less than the average suicide in the world, of 9.87 self-harm per 100.000 people.

Of the 1,518 recorded suicide cases in 2012, 1,184 were men suicides and 334 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 7.69 per 100,000 men and for women 2.21 per 100,000 female.

Suicide is a very important cause of death in the world and also in Afghanistan. However, in Afghanistan in 2012 there were there were 1,948 homicides, then, homicides are more common than suicides. There were 1.3 homicides per suicide.

Related data:

• Homicides in Afghanistan
• Afghanistan economy
• Country suicides ranking