Ghana - Intentional self-harm

By 2001, suicides in Ghana increased by 52 people to at 1,241 suicides In 2001, on average 3 Ghanaians committed suicide every day.

In Ghana there were 6.4 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, much less than the average suicide in the world, of 10.88 self-harm per 100.000 people.

Of the 1,241 recorded suicide cases in 2001, 1,002 were men suicides and 239 were women. Men have a high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 10 per 100,000 men and for women 2.35 per 100,000 female.

Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Ghana suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 433 homicides in Ghana, suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 2.9 suicides.

Related data:

• Homicides in Ghana
• Ghana economy
• Country suicides ranking