In 2003 around 1,654 suicides occurred in Chile, 51 more than in 2002. In 2003, on average 5 Chileans committed suicide every day.
Chile reported 10.4 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, less than the average suicide in the world, of 10.69 self-harm per 100.000 people.
Of the 1,654 recorded suicide cases in 2003, 1,402 were men suicides and 252 were women. Men have a very high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 18 per 100,000 men and for women 3.1 per 100,000 female.
Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Chile suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 513 homicides in Chile, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 3.2 suicides.
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