El Salvador - Intentional self-harm

By 2005, suicides in El Salvador increased by 11 people to at 863 suicides On average, there are 2 suicides per day.

In El Salvador there were 14.26 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 10.34 suicides per 100,000 people.

Of the 863 recorded suicide cases in 2005, 668 were men suicides and 194 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 23.1 per 100,000 men and for women 6.18 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 2005 there were there were 3,882 homicides, many more than suicides. There were 4.5 homicides per suicide.

Related data:

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