El Salvador - Intentional self-harm

In 2012 occurred 756 suicides in El Salvador. This year, 52 fewer people committed suicide than in 2011. On average, there are 2 suicides per day.

El Salvador had 12.13 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 9.87 suicides per 100,000 people.

Of the 756 recorded suicide cases in 2012, 610 were men suicides and 146 were women. Men have a high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 20.72 per 100,000 men and for women 4.55 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 2012 there were there were 2,594 homicides, many more than suicides. There were 3.4 homicides per suicide.

Related data:

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