In 2020 around 9,027 suicides occurred in France, 166 more than in 2019. In 2020, on average 25 French committed suicide every day.
France reported 13.36 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 9.27 suicides per 100,000 people.
Of the 9,027 recorded suicide cases in 2020, 6,770 were men suicides and 2,257 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 20.72 per 100,000 men and for women 6.47 per 100,000 female.
Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In France suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 692 homicides in France, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 13 suicides.
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