In Belgium there were 21.9 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 15.3 suicides per 100,000 people.
Belgium has a very high suicide rate compared to other countries.
Of the 2,159 recorded suicide cases in 1981, 1,414 were men suicides and 745 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 29.4 per 100,000 men and for women 14.8 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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