In France there were 15.1 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 11.8 suicides per 100,000 people.
France, has a relatively low rate of suicide per inhabitants.
Of the 7,834 recorded suicide cases in 1970, 5,653 were men suicides and 2,181 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 22.28 per 100,000 men and for women 8.2 per 100,000 female. In spite of this, it is one of the countries with the highest female suicide rate in the world.
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