Australia - Intentional self-harm

In 1990 occurred 2,202 suicides in Australia. This year, 136 more people committed suicide than in 1989. In 1990, on average 6 Australians committed suicide every day.

Australia had 12.9 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, less than the average suicide in the world, of 14.95 self-harm per 100.000 people.

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

Of the 2,202 recorded suicide cases in 1990, 1,758 were men suicides and 444 were women. Men have a high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 20.7 per 100,000 men and for women 5.2 per 100,000 female.

Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Australia suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 374 homicides in Australia, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 5.9 suicides.

Related data:

• Homicides in Australia
• Australia economy
• Country suicides ranking