El Salvador - Intentional self-harm

By 2008, suicides in El Salvador increased by 27 people to at 749 suicides On average, there are 2 suicides per day.

In El Salvador there were 12.21 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 9.96 suicides per 100,000 people.

Of the 749 recorded suicide cases in 2008, 588 were men suicides and 161 were women. Men have a high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 20.27 per 100,000 men and for women 5.07 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 2008 there were there were 3,179 homicides, many more than suicides. There were 4.2 homicides per suicide.

Related data:

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