El Salvador - Intentional self-harm

In 2011 occurred 808 suicides in El Salvador. This year, 69 more people committed suicide than in 2010. On average, there are 2 suicides per day.

El Salvador had 13.01 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 9.82 suicides per 100,000 people.

Of the 808 recorded suicide cases in 2011, 627 were men suicides and 181 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 21.39 per 100,000 men and for women 5.64 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 2011 there were there were 4,371 homicides, many more than suicides. There were 5.4 homicides per suicide.

Related data:

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