Belgium - Intentional self-harm

In 1968 occurred 1,492 suicides in Belgium. This year, 58 more people committed suicide than in 1967. In 1968, on average 4 Belgians committed suicide every day.

Belgium had 15.5 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 11.66 suicides per 100,000 people.

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

Of the 1,492 recorded suicide cases in 1968, 1,000 were men suicides and 492 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 21.2 per 100,000 men and for women 10 per 100,000 female. In spite of this, it is one of the countries with the highest female suicide rate in the world.

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