In Finland there were 21.1 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 10.78 suicides per 100,000 people.
Finland is a country with a high rate of suicide.
Of the 1,095 recorded suicide cases in 2002, 824 were men suicides and 271 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 32.4 per 100,000 men and for women 10.2 per 100,000 female.
Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Finland suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 132 homicides in Finland, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 8.3 suicides.
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