In 2003 around 1,719 suicides occurred in the Czech Republic, 185 more than in 2002. In 2003, on average 5 Czechs committed suicide every day.
the Czech Republic reported 16.9 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 10.69 suicides per 100,000 people.
the Czech Republic is a country with a high rate of suicide.
Of the 1,719 recorded suicide cases in 2003, 1,365 were men suicides and 354 were women. Men have a high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 27.5 per 100,000 men and for women 6.8 per 100,000 female.
Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In the Czech Republic suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 163 homicides in the Czech Republic, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 10.5 suicides.
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