El Salvador - Intentional self-harm

By 2002, suicides in El Salvador increased by 34 people to at 827 suicides On average, there are 2 suicides per day.

In El Salvador there were 13.87 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 10.78 suicides per 100,000 people.

Of the 827 recorded suicide cases in 2002, 621 were men suicides and 206 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 21.47 per 100,000 men and for women 6.6 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 2002 there were there were 2,835 homicides, many more than suicides. There were 3.4 homicides per suicide.

Related data:

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