Democratic Republic of the Congo - Intentional self-harm

By 2002, suicides in Democratic Republic of the Congo increased by 125 people to at 5,399 suicides In 2002, on average 15 Congolese committed suicide every day.

In Democratic Republic of the Congo there were 10.59 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, less than the average suicide in the world, of 10.78 self-harm per 100.000 people.

Of the 5,399 recorded suicide cases in 2002, 3,867 were men suicides and 1,532 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 15.14 per 100,000 men and for women 5.87 per 100,000 female.

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