Algeria - Intentional self-harm

By 2006, suicides in Algeria increased by 30 people to at 1,242 suicides In 2006, on average 3 Algerians committed suicide every day.

In Algeria there were 3.72 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, much less than the average suicide in the world, of 10.12 self-harm per 100.000 people.

Of the 1,242 recorded suicide cases in 2006, 917 were men suicides and 325 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 5.38 per 100,000 men and for women 1.98 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 312 homicides in Algeria, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 4 suicides.

Related data:

• Homicides in Algeria
• Algeria economy
• Country suicides ranking