Belgium had 19.02 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 9.82 suicides per 100,000 people.
Belgium is a country with a high rate of suicide.
Of the 2,118 recorded suicide cases in 2011, 1,510 were men suicides and 608 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 27.6 per 100,000 men and for women 10.73 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 214 homicides in Belgium, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 9.9 suicides.
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