El Salvador - Intentional self-harm

By 2010, suicides in El Salvador increased by 46 people to at 739 suicides On average, there are 2 suicides per day.

In El Salvador there were 11.95 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 9.89 suicides per 100,000 people.

Of the 739 recorded suicide cases in 2010, 573 were men suicides and 166 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 19.61 per 100,000 men and for women 5.2 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 2010 there were there were 3,987 homicides, many more than suicides. There were 5.4 homicides per suicide.

Related data:

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