El Salvador - Intentional self-harm

In 2003 occurred 876 suicides in El Salvador. This year, 49 more people committed suicide than in 2002. On average, there are 2 suicides per day.

El Salvador had 14.62 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 10.69 suicides per 100,000 people.

Of the 876 recorded suicide cases in 2003, 674 were men suicides and 202 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 23.29 per 100,000 men and for women 6.45 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 2003 there were there were 3,356 homicides, many more than suicides. There were 3.8 homicides per suicide.

Related data:

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