Bulgaria - Intentional self-harm

By 2016, suicides in Bulgaria increased by 18 people to at 664 suicides In Bulgaria, on average, at least one suicide happens every day.

In Bulgaria there were 9.36 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, less than the average suicide in the world, of 9.41 self-harm per 100.000 people.

Of the 664 recorded suicide cases in 2016, 507 were men suicides and 157 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 14.7 per 100,000 men and for women 4.31 per 100,000 female.

Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Bulgaria suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 79 homicides in Bulgaria, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 8.4 suicides.

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• Homicides in Bulgaria
• Bulgaria economy
• Country suicides ranking