Bolivia - Intentional self-harm

By 2001, suicides in Bolivia increased by 5 people to at 1,963 suicides In 2001, on average 5 Bolivians committed suicide every day.

In Bolivia there were 22.85 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 10.88 suicides per 100,000 people.

Bolivia is a country with a high rate of suicide.

Of the 1,963 recorded suicide cases in 2001, 1,276 were men suicides and 687 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 28.88 per 100,000 men and for women 15.87 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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