Burkina Faso - Intentional self-harm

By 2002, suicides in Burkina Faso increased by 12 people to at 1,112 suicides In 2002, on average 3 Burkinabe committed suicide every day.

In Burkina Faso there were 9.05 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, less than the average suicide in the world, of 10.78 self-harm per 100.000 people.

Of the 1,112 recorded suicide cases in 2002, 789 were men suicides and 323 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 12.66 per 100,000 men and for women 5.05 per 100,000 female.

Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Burkina Faso suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 78 homicides in Burkina Faso, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 14.3 suicides.

Related data:

• Homicides in Burkina Faso
• Burkina Faso economy
• Country suicides ranking