El Salvador - Intentional self-harm

By 2001, suicides in El Salvador increased by 37 people to at 861 suicides On average, there are 2 suicides per day.

In El Salvador there were 14.53 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 10.88 suicides per 100,000 people.

Of the 861 recorded suicide cases in 2001, 650 were men suicides and 211 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 22.56 per 100,000 men and for women 6.79 per 100,000 female.

Suicide is a very important cause of death in the world and also in El Salvador. However, in El Salvador in 2001 there were there were 3,590 homicides, many more than suicides. There were 4.2 homicides per suicide.

Related data:

• Homicides in El Salvador
• El Salvador economy
• Country suicides ranking