In Belgium there were 19.4 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 10.34 suicides per 100,000 people.
Belgium is a country with a high rate of suicide.
Of the 2,029 recorded suicide cases in 2005, 1,477 were men suicides and 552 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 28.8 per 100,000 men and for women 10.3 per 100,000 female.
Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Belgium suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 221 homicides in Belgium, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 9.2 suicides.
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