El Salvador - Intentional self-harm

In 2009 occurred 785 suicides in El Salvador. This year, 36 more people committed suicide than in 2008. On average, there are 2 suicides per day.

El Salvador had 12.75 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 10 suicides per 100,000 people.

Of the 785 recorded suicide cases in 2009, 609 were men suicides and 177 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 20.9 per 100,000 men and for women 5.56 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 2009 there were there were 4,382 homicides, many more than suicides. There were 5.6 homicides per suicide.

Related data:

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