Algeria - Intentional self-harm

By 2003, suicides in Algeria increased by 54 people to at 1,133 suicides In 2003, on average 3 Algerians committed suicide every day.

In Algeria there were 3.55 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, much less than the average suicide in the world, of 10.69 self-harm per 100.000 people.

Algeria, has a relatively low rate of suicide per inhabitants.

Of the 1,133 recorded suicide cases in 2003, 776 were men suicides and 357 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 4.75 per 100,000 men and for women 2.27 per 100,000 female.

Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Algeria suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 650 homicides in Algeria, there are more suicides than homicides. For every homicide there were 1.7 suicides.

Related data:

• Homicides in Algeria
• Algeria economy
• Country suicides ranking